FATHERS’ rights campaigners arrested for scaling Exeter Cathedral say they will continue to target the building after their requests to meet with the bishop were ignored.

Jolly Stanesby, 44, from Ivybridge, Devon, and Archit Ssan, 53, from Croydon, climbed up the front of the cathedral on to the balcony on Father’s Day this year as part of a protest by the ‘New Fathers 4 Justice’ splinter group.

They also unfurled a banner reading ‘Family Courts Do Evil’ while a special church service attended by judges went on below them.

At the time of the arrests New Fathers 4 Justice spokesman Rich Adams said the group were campaigning for a change in the law so fathers were afforded “the same rights as mothers”. They also want transparent family courts to be more open to scrutiny.

The spokesman said: “We’d like nothing more than to be simply with our families, and happy…