Animal Rights Terrorists are GOING TO JAIL!
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politic...
Telegraph said:
Animal rights activists guilty of Huntingdon Life Sciences blackmail campaign
Four animals rights activists have been found guilty of blackmailing companies who supplied Huntingdon Life Sciences.
All five denied conspiracy to blackmail but Selby, Wadham, Medd-Hall and Nicholson were found guilty. Holmes was cleared of the charge.
One of the jurors refused to be seen in court while the verdict was announced after 33 hours and 48 minutes of deliberation.
Sentencing will take place on January 19 at Winchester Crown Court.
Selby, Wadham and Medd-Hall were released on conditional bail, while Nicholson was remanded in custody.
Three other people - Gregg Avery, Natasha Avery and Daniel Amos - have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to blackmail.
The hierarchy of the group called Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (Shac) used threats such as claiming that managers of the companies were paedophiles, hoax bombs parcels, criminal damage and threatening telephone calls to force them to cut links with the animal testing company.
The aim was to target suppliers or any company with a secondary link with Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), based in Cambridge.
One of the features of intimidation included sending used sanitary towels in the post, saying they were contaminated with the Aids virus, and personal campaigns against the management of companies including daubing roads outside their homes with words like "Puppy Killer".
Nicholson, from Eversley in Hampshire, was a founder member of Shac, who managed the "menacing" campaigns against the firms who were named on the group's website.
The blackmail would only stop when they put out a "capitulation statement" to Shac saying they would not supply HLS, which conducts animal testing for the pharmaceutical industry, the court was told.
Medd-Hall, from Croydon in south London, was a computer and research expert high up in Shac who uncovered company links with HLS.
Wadham, from Bromley, south east London, joined Shac in 2005 and was in regular attendance at demonstrations against the firms and HLS.
Selby, from Chiswick in west London, was also a regular activist at demonstrations in the UK and Europe, including a violent demo in Paris.
Holmes, from Newcastle upon Tyne, was alleged to be a senior member of Shac who took part in criminal damage in the UK, the court heard.
Frankly we should let the Met at them. But there you go...good to know they won't just escape punishment..Four animals rights activists have been found guilty of blackmailing companies who supplied Huntingdon Life Sciences.
All five denied conspiracy to blackmail but Selby, Wadham, Medd-Hall and Nicholson were found guilty. Holmes was cleared of the charge.
One of the jurors refused to be seen in court while the verdict was announced after 33 hours and 48 minutes of deliberation.
Sentencing will take place on January 19 at Winchester Crown Court.
Selby, Wadham and Medd-Hall were released on conditional bail, while Nicholson was remanded in custody.
Three other people - Gregg Avery, Natasha Avery and Daniel Amos - have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to blackmail.
The hierarchy of the group called Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (Shac) used threats such as claiming that managers of the companies were paedophiles, hoax bombs parcels, criminal damage and threatening telephone calls to force them to cut links with the animal testing company.
The aim was to target suppliers or any company with a secondary link with Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), based in Cambridge.
One of the features of intimidation included sending used sanitary towels in the post, saying they were contaminated with the Aids virus, and personal campaigns against the management of companies including daubing roads outside their homes with words like "Puppy Killer".
Nicholson, from Eversley in Hampshire, was a founder member of Shac, who managed the "menacing" campaigns against the firms who were named on the group's website.
The blackmail would only stop when they put out a "capitulation statement" to Shac saying they would not supply HLS, which conducts animal testing for the pharmaceutical industry, the court was told.
Medd-Hall, from Croydon in south London, was a computer and research expert high up in Shac who uncovered company links with HLS.
Wadham, from Bromley, south east London, joined Shac in 2005 and was in regular attendance at demonstrations against the firms and HLS.
Selby, from Chiswick in west London, was also a regular activist at demonstrations in the UK and Europe, including a violent demo in Paris.
Holmes, from Newcastle upon Tyne, was alleged to be a senior member of Shac who took part in criminal damage in the UK, the court heard.
XitUp said:
Don said:
XitUp said:
I agree with them, but not really with thier methods.
I defend their right to speak out against what they believe to be wrong.Their actions, however, were indefensible, pure evil. May they rot in hell.
It's inexcusable, they can rot in jail for all I care.
bkay88 said:
True, but if they were tormenting me or any member of my family...
It's inexcusable, they can rot in jail for all I care.
Personally, I think it's not as bad as what the people they were targeting were doing.It's inexcusable, they can rot in jail for all I care.
But I still don't think two wrongs make a right.
Edited by XitUp on Tuesday 23 December 14:59
XitUp said:
Meh, they could have done a lot worse.
They have done, well others in the group have.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article39...
FourWheelDrift said:
XitUp said:
Meh, they could have done a lot worse.
They have done, well others in the group have.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article39...
XitUp said:
FourWheelDrift said:
XitUp said:
Meh, they could have done a lot worse.
They have done, well others in the group have.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article39...
king sick. How deluded does someone have to be to do that?XitUp said:
FourWheelDrift said:
XitUp said:
Meh, they could have done a lot worse.
They have done, well others in the group have.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article39...
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