ACQUIT WHILE YOU'RE A-HEAD

Sanity prevailed on Wednesday (17th) and Hunt monitor Bryan Griffith was acquitted of the manslaughter of Warwickshire Hunt member Trevor Morse (See SchNEWS 712), beheaded after an encounter with the rear propeller of his taxi-ing gyrocopter.

Griffith testified that he believed shots were fired at him before he stopped to refuel, and that when confronted on the airfield he felt his safety was in ‘imminent danger’ (apparently Otis Ferry and some other goons turned up at the airfield just after the incident).

He also relayed how Morse had refused to move after clearly being told he was obstructing the take-off, all of which was caught on video. Morse and other pro-hunters also had Griffith’s address and were seemingly conspiring to take illegal action against him.

As the Warwickshire Hunt has a long history of violence against the Sabs, they took to using a gyrocopter for hunt monitoring. It can only point to how successful monitoring from the air must be for the stupid desperate action that cost one huntsmen his life. Morse’s actions may have been unpredictable, but the consequences of putting yer neck in front of 200mph rotor blades were not.

* http://hsa.enviroweb.org