Animal rights Golden Goose Sneakers activists jailed for grave-robbing
Three animal rights activists have Golden Goose Sneakers Sale been jailed for 12 years each and a fourth imprisoned for four years for a terror campaign against an English guinea pig farm that culminated in a grave-robbing.
John Ablewhite, Kerry Whitburn and John Smith were each handed 12-year prison terms at Nottingham Crown Court in central England, after pleading guilty to a charge of conspiring to blackmail the farm owners.
Josephine Mayo was jailed for four years after admitting a lesser part in the six-year campaign against the Hall family, who own a farm in Staffordshire in central England, which bred the animals for medical research purposes.
What began as a peaceful protest outside the gates of Darley Oaks Farm in the hamlet of Newchurch in 1999 escalated into threats, intimidation and even violence against the owners and any person or business linked to it.
That included a paedophile smear campaign, death threats, hate mail, malicious phone calls, hoax bombs and arson attacks against the owners, the pub in which they drank, their golf club and even their cleaners.
In October 2004, animal rights extremists stole the remains of the 82-year-old mother-in-law of one of the owners from a churchyard in the nearby village of Yoxall.
Her body was only recovered earlier this month after Smith revealed its location in a nearby beauty spot in Cannock Chase to police.
Smith raised a defiant fist to the court room as he was taken down to the cells with his three co-defendants.Lunatic fringe groupJudge Michael Peat Golden Goose Womens Sale told the four that they could have resorted to lawful means to change a law they did not like because they lived in a democratic society.
"You thought to enforce your view not by reasoned debate or lawful protest, but by subjecting wholly innocent citizens to a campaign of terror," the judge said.
He added that the Hall family had run a lawful business and said he had read 38 statements Golden Goose Mens Sneakers taken from victims targeted in the campaign.
"Your stated aim was to put the Hall family out of business, to that end, you targeted them, their employees and their families. You targeted people who did business with them and friends of them," he said.
"What is Golden Goose Sneakers Online clear is that you have, in the vast majority of these cases, ruined their lives over a period of years and perhaps forever.