West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs
Location: Tile Hill, Coventry Affiliations: West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs, AAF Midlands Cathy Scott, leader of the infamous West Midlands Hunt sabs and controller of their Facebook page, often uses disreputable tactics in her self-obsessed war against legal trail hunting. Like many sabs, she also happily surrounds herself with disturbing criminal
Cheshire
Location: Stockport, Cheshire Affiliations: Stockport Monitors, Cheshire Monitors Joe Johnson is a keen member of the notoriously aggressive and violent Stockport Monitors, patronised by convicted criminal Paul Allman. Posting shamelessly about their antics on his Facebook page, Johnson claimed in July 2020 that the Stockport Monitors go sabbing “for nothing
North London
Location: North London Affiliations: Northants Sabs and Hertfordshire Sabs Agniezska Grabowicz is a violent and hard-line animal rights activist who has previously been in trouble with the law for her aggressive behaviour. In 2020, the Countryside Alliance reported that Grabowicz had been fined and banned from sabbing in Leicestershire and
Chester Crown Court has denied the appeal of renowned hunt saboteur and leader of the Stockport Monitors Paul Allman, upholding the sentence of 20 weeks imprisonment delivered by Judge John McGarva in August 2023. . Allman, widely seen as the “face of UK hunt saboteurs” appeared before the crown court for
North East Hunt Monitors
Location: Sunderland, Tyne and Wear Affiliations: North East Hunt Monitors, Teeside Against Blood Sports (TABS), Geordie Hunt Sabs. Simon Taylor is a veteran sab and animal activist. Most recently, he became a keen member of the North East’s newest masked gang of extremists, Teeside Against Blood Sports (TABS). In
Sabs Unmasked
Location: Flintshire Affiliations: North Wales Hunt Saboteurs Location: Flintshire These sabs just keep on coming, each as ridiculous as the last. Dafydd Hughes is a reprobate who dedicates his unemployment to self-righteous virtue-signalling, violence and intimidation, all in the name of sabbing. Conviction for Assault North Wales Live reported in
Warwickshire
Location: Coventry, Warwickshire Affiliations: West Midland Hunt Sabs, AAF Midlands David Graham is a sab with a criminal conviction for perverting the course of justice. Perverting the Course of Justice Graham’s saga began in March 2016 after he claimed to be the victim of assault. Two landowners, the Milner
Sabs Unmasked
Location: Cheshire Affiliations: Coordinator of Cheshire Monitors Lesley Martin is a veteran sab whose ego can’t refuse the odd media appearance. Martin’s 15 minutes of sab stardom came in December 2021, when she appeared on BBC’s North West Tonight and took great pleasure in falsely claiming that
Stockport Monitors
Location: Greater Manchester Affiliations: Stockport Monitors Aged just 25 at the time of his conviction, Charley Waring was one of the younger members of the Stockport Monitors who received a suspended sentence for public order offences in September 2022 at Leicester Magistrates' Court. The five men were convicted of
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In the short five months since we launched, Behind the Masks has revealed some frightening truths about hunt saboteurs’ psychology and the motivations behind their often violent and unlawful behaviour. They gather across the country and come from all different walks of life but one common thread seems to run
Sabs Unmasked
Affiliations: West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs Location: Warwickshire Caroline Hutt is a sab supporter, sympathiser, and apologist, willing to stick her neck out for criminal sabs in the West Midlands, including the likes of Cathy Scott, David Graham, and Richard Williams. She recently gained notoriety after appearing as a talking head
West Sussex
Location: Bognor Regis, West Sussex Affiliations: West Sussex Hunt Sabs Trespass & Harassment Doug Maw, a “veteran hunt saboteur” and former slaughterhouse worker, has apparently relished being the centre of attention in an ongoing legal drama. Over the past few years, Maw has allegedly broken into several private estates in