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Home | Friday 20th March 2009 | Issue 669

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DOING WHIRLY-BIRD

People are being asked to send letters of support to the pilot of the gyrocopter arrested for murder when a hunt supporter ran into its rear propeller – and what was he doing on the runway anyway? (See SchNEWS 668)

Send letters to: Bryan Griffiths XW8892, HMP Hewell, Hewell Lane, Redditch B97 6QS. (Note: he’s up on serious charges so don’t say anything stupid).

Meanwhile a clue as to why hunt monitors might find it safer to be airborne came as one huntsman has found himself doing time for attacking a 61 year old woman. Christopher Marles, Whipper-In for the East Devon hunt, was described acting like an “arrogant, cowardly, drunken lout” by the judge for riding his horse repeatedly into anti-hunt activist Helen Weeks.

He was sentenced to six months. You can view the braying red faced twat in action at: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7941882.stm

* See also http://hsa.enviroweb.org

Keywords: animal rights, bryan griffiths, gyrocopter, hunt monitors, hunt saboteur


 

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