Fifty years for 'urban terrorists': Animals rights fanatics jailed for campaign of intimidation
By Tom Kelly
Last updated at 9:46 PM on 21st January 2009
A judge branded seven animal rights extremists 'urban terrorists' yesterday as he jailed them for a total of 50 years for a ruthless campaign of intimidation.
Mr Justice Butterfield said the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty activists made life a 'living hell' for thousands of men, women and children by subjecting them to a 'relentless, sustained and merciless persecution'.
He also called for the law to be changed to allow tougher sentences for blackmailers, after warning the ringleaders of the network were likely to return to extremism once they were freed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11...timidation.html
Guilty: Animal terror gang who raised £1million rattling tins on the high street
By Tom Kelly
Last updated at 1:03 AM on 24th December 2008
Seven animal rights fanatics who pursued a terror campaign against a laboratory which used animals in experiments were facing lengthy jail sentences last night.
Their six-year operation was funded with £1million raised from donations to collection tins on high street stalls.
Britain's most notorious animal activist, Greg Avery, also groomed middle-class teenagers to become senior figures in his criminal network.
Vandalism: The extremists caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to property including this car
Among them were a former prefect at a girls' public school and the sons of a building society manager and a librarian.
The campaign's aim was to intimidate firms into stopping doing business with Cambridgeshire-based Huntingdon Life Sciences, which carries out animal testing for medical research.
The tactics included branding hundreds of innocent workers paedophiles and threatening to kill their children, and sending hoax bombs and items allegedly contaminated with Aids to workers' homes.
Read more: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article...l#ixzz0N0rKDkYJ
Looks like xblacks tactics have not changed much...
wonder if Britian has a three strike law
