Animal rights group steals woman's corpse!
Times Online - Britain
Village demands exclusion zone to keep animal rights protesters at bay
AN ENTIRE community has applied for an unprecedented injunction against animal rights extremists after a vicious campaign of intimidation that has included the theft of an elderly woman’s corpse.
The move comes days after an arson attack on another company listed on an animal rights group’s website. The premises of International Product Supplies, in Wellingham, Norfolk, were firebombed on Friday night.
Activists have relentlessly targeted Newchurch guinea-pig farm in Yoxall, East Staffordshire, which is run by Chris Hall and his family. In the most recent attack, the remains of Mr Hall’s mother-in-law, Gladys Hammond, 82, were stolen from her grave.
The family is following the lead of Oxford University and Huntingdon Life Sciences by applying for a protest-free exclusion zone around their property. Their case will be heard tomorrow at the High Court. But for the first time, the community has rallied behind a company seeking a court order of this kind by adding an application for its own injunction to protect the parishes surrounding the farm.
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“The residents need a spokesperson. Enough is enough. The police have given me support and said there could be ramifications, but I’m prepared for that. I’m not a soft touch and won’t be intimidated by anyone, and I’m not going to tolerate this sort of behaviour.
“I’m sick and tired of people being threatened. Over the past five years, residents have had explosions in fields and paint thrown over roads. Normal people going about their everyday business are frightened and intimidated.”
No one has been prosecuted for the desecration of Mrs Hammond’s grave, although two men were arrested and released without charge.
Times Online - Britain
Village demands exclusion zone to keep animal rights protesters at bay
AN ENTIRE community has applied for an unprecedented injunction against animal rights extremists after a vicious campaign of intimidation that has included the theft of an elderly woman’s corpse.
The move comes days after an arson attack on another company listed on an animal rights group’s website. The premises of International Product Supplies, in Wellingham, Norfolk, were firebombed on Friday night.
Activists have relentlessly targeted Newchurch guinea-pig farm in Yoxall, East Staffordshire, which is run by Chris Hall and his family. In the most recent attack, the remains of Mr Hall’s mother-in-law, Gladys Hammond, 82, were stolen from her grave.
The family is following the lead of Oxford University and Huntingdon Life Sciences by applying for a protest-free exclusion zone around their property. Their case will be heard tomorrow at the High Court. But for the first time, the community has rallied behind a company seeking a court order of this kind by adding an application for its own injunction to protect the parishes surrounding the farm.
[...]
“The residents need a spokesperson. Enough is enough. The police have given me support and said there could be ramifications, but I’m prepared for that. I’m not a soft touch and won’t be intimidated by anyone, and I’m not going to tolerate this sort of behaviour.
“I’m sick and tired of people being threatened. Over the past five years, residents have had explosions in fields and paint thrown over roads. Normal people going about their everyday business are frightened and intimidated.”
No one has been prosecuted for the desecration of Mrs Hammond’s grave, although two men were arrested and released without charge.
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