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HSA news release 31st December 1999 Countryside Alliance ‘truce’ classed as a joke Hunt Saboteur Attacked During Fox Rescue Hunt saboteurs today condemned the hunting fraternity for failing to abide by their own ‘truce’ following a violent attack on a saboteur. Saboteurs had successfully rescued a fox that had been badly mauled by hounds and […]
HSA news release 18th February 1998 A Hunt Saboteur from Sussex was the latest casualty in a war that is going on unreported in the British countryside. Today’s attack was at Heyshot, near Midhurst, W.Sussex. At approximately 12 noon today, a hunt rider with the Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray Foxhunt, rode deliberately into a small […]
HSA news release 7th October 1995 Hunt thugs on rampage againBritish Field Sports Society press spokesman arrested for assault Barely six weeks into the new cubhunting season, saboteurs across the country are again under attack from hunt thugs. In a morning of violence, balaclava-clad thugs at the Crawley and Horsham Foxhunt in Sussex smashed a […]
HSA news release 15th June 1995 The trial of two saboteurs charged with violent disorder after a demonstration against the Criminal Justice Act at the Essex Foxhunt last November ended in humiliation for Essex police today at Chelmsford Crown Court. The case against one man, Ken Edmundson, was thrown out of court two days ago […]
HSA news release 7th June 1995 Court case reveals off-duty cop took part in mob attack Northumbria police today suffered a humiliating defeat in a case of aggravated trespass against five hunt saboteurs heard at Hexham Magistrates Courts. The five saboteurs were arrested on 19th November 1994 at the Tynedale Foxhunt, about an hour after […]
HSA news release May 29th 1995 Ten saboteurs received hospital treatment in Dorset today after a terrifying ambush by hunt heavies at the Ytene Minkhunt. Twenty-three saboteurs had attended the hunt meet on the River Stour in Marnhull, near Shaftesbury, Dorset: only four escaped injury.
Criminal Justice Act results: Convicted – 7.1%; Dropped – 43.6% A dramatic new report on the first season of the implementation of the new offence of aggravated trespass created by the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act shows the policy has been an expensive disaster.
HSA news release 18th March 1995 Ten saboteurs were arrested today in what campaigners are claiming was a carefully sprung trap by Sussex Police to “show them who’s boss”. Some fifteen saboteurs had held a peaceful banner demonstration at the Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray Foxhunt’s meet at the Ship Inn, Harting, near Midhurst, and had […]
HSA news release 8th April 1995 The hate campaign against a Kettering hunt saboteur continued with a sickening attack on his home last night in which the entrails of dead animals were dumped in his front garden, on his doorstep, and smeared over his motorbike.
Wildlife Action news release 30th March 1995 Forestry Commission HQ roof occupied in protest against buckhunts Four anti-bloodsports campaigners are currently occupying the roof of the Forestry Commission HQ in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, in protest at the Commission’s continued support of the New Forest Buckhounds .
HSA news release 10th March 1995 Campaigners look on in horror as hounds rip deer’s throat out For the second time in as many months, campaigners from the Wildlife Action group have captured the New Forest Buckhounds killing deer with appalling cruelty, breaking the terms of their Forestry Commission licence.
HSA news release 20th February 1995 Hunt thugs use “IRA-style punishment squads” in terror attacks on northwest saboteurs Hunt violence in the northwest took a sinister new turn over the weekend as masked thugs launched a wave of punishment attacks on anti-hunt activists in Manchester and Liverpool.
Kettering Hunt Saboteurs news release 11th February 1995 A hunt saboteur was taken to hospital in an ambulance today (Saturday, February 11, 1995) after being ridden down by a Master of Foxhounds at a joint meet of the Fitzwilliam Hunt and the Woodland Pytchley Hunt at Chapel End, Great Gidding, Northants.
Wildlife Action News Release 8th February 1995 Horror video lends fresh weight to call for hunt ban Campaigners could only watch in horror today as a foxhound was hit by a train which crashed into a pack of hounds chasing a fox up the middle of a main railway line. The hound was left bleeding […]
HSA news release 4th February 1995 Hunt calls in Paras to attack saboteursFive saboteurs injured in mob attack at Hunt Five saboteurs were injured at the Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray Foxhunt at Petworth Park, Sussex,
HSA news release February 2nd 1995 Two hunt saboteurs arrested at the Ashford Valley Foxhunt meet at Chainhurst, Kent, on 12th November 1994 were convited on charges of aggravated trespass at Maidstone Magistrates Court today (2nd February) despite serious flaws in the prosecution case which led defence barristers to ask for the court to rule […]
HSA news release January 24th 1995 Horrific video exposes cruelty of deerhunt Labour MP for Nottingham South, Alan Simpson, will be hosting a Hunt Saboteurs Association press conference in London tomorrow at which dramatic video footage of a deer being drowned by the New Forest Buckhounds will be shown in public for the first time. […]
HSA news release 21st January 1995 Hunt Saboteurs today effectively imposed a blanket ban on bloodsports in Essex. In a well-coordinated and sophisticated operation, nearly 100 saboteurs reduced three foxhunts and a pheasant shoot in locations across the county to a shambles, forcing all of them to pack up early in disarray. Saboteurs hit the […]
HSA news release 18th January 1995 With one case of aggravated trespass against a hunt saboteur in Kent having already failed (Kent CPS dropped all criminal charges in return for a bindover), the next rash of cases are coming to court in the next few weeks. Current trial dates available are as follows: Thursday […]
HSA news release 12th January 1995 Kent Crown Prosecution Service demonstrated their confidence in the new Criminal Justice and Public Order Act earlier this week when they dropped charges of aggravated trespass against a hunt saboteur appearing at Maidstone magistrates court on Monday 9th January 1995. Erica Wirrmann, a member of Ashford Hunt Saboteurs, was […]
