SHAC youth go on trial for reconnaissance.
Lincs AR | 29.04.2009 10:44 | Animal Liberation
A trial started yesterday in Lincoln Crown Court of 4 SHAC activists accused of conducting a recon at a rabbit breeder. Reporting restrictions were lifted.
Animal rights activists carried out a "reconnaissance" raid on a Lincolnshire rabbit farm with links to the Huntingdon Life Sciences research company, a jury was told.
The four arrived at Highgate Farm near Normanby by Spital, in the middle of the night on October 13 last year. After getting into the premises they quickly left, knowing they were being filmed on the farm's security system.
All four had links to the campaigning group SHAC - Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty - which listed Highgate Farm on its website as a potential target for "direct action".
Of the 4 one is 27, two are 18 and one a youth of 17. AR activists have expressed concern due to the relative youth of those accused.
Three of the 4 have pleaded guilty - the trial continues on the fourth
The four arrived at Highgate Farm near Normanby by Spital, in the middle of the night on October 13 last year. After getting into the premises they quickly left, knowing they were being filmed on the farm's security system.
All four had links to the campaigning group SHAC - Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty - which listed Highgate Farm on its website as a potential target for "direct action".
Of the 4 one is 27, two are 18 and one a youth of 17. AR activists have expressed concern due to the relative youth of those accused.
Three of the 4 have pleaded guilty - the trial continues on the fourth
Lincs AR
Homepage:
http://www.marketrasenmail.co.uk/news/Animal-rights-rabbit-farm-recce.5213439.jp
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the charge...
29.04.2009 11:02
Our obedience is their license
anon
Remove this
29.04.2009 11:12
In the know
Why plead guilty then complain?
29.04.2009 11:42
Why?
Remove This = Censorship
29.04.2009 11:56
The ages of those on trial appals me particularly as they should be the lifeblood of the movement for the future.
Why were they on such an action? What was hoped to be achieved?
News to me
Stupid report
29.04.2009 12:02
"A trial started yesterday in Lincoln Crown Court of 4 SHAC activists accused of conducting a recon at a rabbit breeder. Reporting restrictions were lifted."
ACCUSED of conducting what, their freedom of thought?!
"Animal rights activists carried out a "reconnaissance" raid on a Lincolnshire rabbit farm with links to the Huntingdon Life Sciences research company, a jury was told."
Never mind the idea of being accused then...
"The four arrived at Highgate Farm near Normanby by Spital, in the middle of the night on October 13 last year. After getting into the premises they quickly left, knowing they were being filmed on the farm's security system."
This wasn't the case, they were pulled over and had AR literature in the car...
"Three of the 4 have pleaded guilty - the trial continues on the fourth"
They pleaded guilty to SOCPA Section 145, which means shit all in the context of pleading guilty to an actual 'crime'...
Section 145
Homepage:
http://netcu.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/how-to-be-a-seriously-organised-animal-rights-criminal-section-145-socpa/
Eh? - Can this happen?
29.04.2009 12:16
3 of then PLEAD GUILTY - why on earth would you do that?
Is this the whole story?
WTF?
^^
29.04.2009 12:48
anonymous
please remove this
29.04.2009 12:49
Nobody is trying to keep this news secret. It is on google news for a start. It is also noted on the individual prisoner support pages, which are linked to from leading sites. It was noted nearly a month ago on prisoner support websites that they plead guilty.
SOCPA 145 is a political law, which makes legal activity criminal because of who it tries to effect.
The replies on the action, and on the law here are a matter of people commenting on an issue they know very little about. I suggest that people find more constructive things to do with their time then acting like gossiping old ladies on the internet.
Please Indymedia, remove this post. The authorities are using sinister tactics in regards to animal rights on Indymedia, perhaps the movement and Indymedia could work together to come to some sort of solution?
Respect.
In the know
Stop the guilty pleas.
29.04.2009 13:41
The "time off" you get for the guilty plea is minimal, and it damages both yourself and the movement.
Jerry Vlasaks scalpel.
It's on Google News ?
29.04.2009 13:51
The real story here is not in a court in Lincs but on this board and it's about those who think they have a right to control what news people get to read.
The AR movement is happy to have marches, sit in's and actions on Indymedia but cries foul when subject to repression and then tries to censor the independent press
Google ?
Mainstream news isn't Indymedia news
29.04.2009 14:27
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Also, Indymedia clearly states it is:
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If you don't like the idea, then Indymedia quite simply isn't for you.
This post clearly shouldn't be here, it belong on the corporate body that spewed it out.
This isn't cencorship, this has already been posted, its duplicate misinformation -
As for 'harming the movement' by people pleading guilty, never heard of pro-choice? If people want to plead guilty to get out earlier, without inditing others, then its their right to do so and you should respect their choice in the matter and support them regardless. It's certainly not your place to judge at all. If people want to fight SOCPA then so be it, if they don't then that's their choice. A doctrine of resistance is only authoritarian, thus fascist.
Get the facts before making comments, always helps!
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