AUSTRALIAN boat race protester Trenton Oldfield has been hit with a six-month jail sentence for causing a public nuisance at this year's Oxford-Cambridge rowing race.
The anti-elitism campaigner delayed the annual race in London by 25 minutes after swimming out in front of the crews on April 7.
In delivering her verdict at a west London court, judge Anne Molyneux was damning of Oldfield.
"Your offence was planned," she said.
"It was deliberate. It was disproportionate. It was dangerous. You have shown no regret."
Oldfield will be due for release after serving three months of the sentence.
The 36-year-old London-based activist said in court last month that he was protesting against inequality and that the boat race symbolised elitism within Britain.
The former Sydney schoolboy rower said last month the severe budget cuts in the Britain had tipped him over the edge.
A 12-person jury at Isleworth Crown Court last month found him guilty of causing a public nuisance.
Oldfield, who has worked heavily in social projects and with volunteer groups over the past decade in London, had not committed a criminal offence before jumping in the Thames six months ago.
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