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CRAP ARREST OF THE WEEK

FOR WRITING A WORD IN THE SAND...

Last Sunday at a demo outside Sequani, the animal testing lab in Ledbury (See SchNEWS 634), one protester at the peaceful demo wrote the word ‘scum’ in the sand outside the premises, then rubbed it out.
But amazingly on Wednesday, police visited her house and arrested her for criminal damage for violation of the sand! They didn’t have a warrant, so were made to wait while she had a shower, and then took her in.

She is now out on bail, but protesters say that the motive to arrest her was to get information about some of the other protesters – but fortunately the arrestee is unlikely to have gone against the grain(s)... For more about the demo see www.sequani.wordpress.com

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