Kent
Location: Dartford, Kent Affiliations: Surrey Hunt Sabs, Kent Hunt Sabs, Founder of Gabo Wildlife, League Against Cruel Sports Carly Ahlen is a Kent-based sab and self-professed marine mammals medic, drone pilot and migratory birds specialist. Sources tell us that Ahlen is a known sab in the Kent area who disrupts
South Yorkshire
Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire Ben Lindsay is a hunt saboteur who has been charged with assault after allegedly attacking a woman. Protests and arrests: Ben Lindsay, 34, of Fitzwilliam Street, Barnsley, was charged with two counts of assault by beating after throwing soup over women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen
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Location: Norfolk Affiliations: Norwich Saboteurs Accusations of theft Gemma Barnes is an infamous animal rights activist based in Norwich, whose impassioned activism has veered over into criminal behaviour. On 11 April 2023, Barnes took to social media to post an array of images showing herself posing with lambs and claiming
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A man was charged with two counts of assault by beating after throwing soup over women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen in Sheffield on 21 September. Behind The Masks can now reveal that the alleged assaulter – named by the police as Ben Lindsay, 34 of Fitzwilliam Street, Barnsley – is a
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A hunt saboteur was arrested outside of the Wynnstay Hunt Kennels on 2 October in connection to an incident where an 18-year-old hunt member was reportedly followed in a car. According to sources, four carloads of hunt saboteurs, believed to have been from Liverpool, tried to follow some hunt members
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Two Kent hunt saboteurs, Harry Blackhurst and Robert Bridger, have been charged with harassment. The pair appeared before Margate Magistrates' Court in mid-August and their trial is due to begin on 30 April 2025. Blackhurst, who is a senior recruitment manager at global logistics platform Flexport, is the spokesperson
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In December 2023, Lord Mandelson made the extraordinary confession that in 1996 then-Labour leader Tony Blair accepted a £1 million donation from Brian Davies, founder of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, in order to end fox hunting. “I’ve known for many years that Labour’s Hunting Act 2004
East Anglia
Location: East Anglia Affiliations: North Cambs Sabs Gareth Cheeseman, sab and unreliable witness, has been known to bother hunts across East Anglia. Behind The Masks recently broke the news of Cheeseman’s discredited involvement in a case against a hunt master. On 30 August former joint hunt master of the
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A former joint master of the Pytchley with Woodland Hunt in Northamptonshire, Mark Ferguson, has successfully appealed his 2022 conviction for assault, with the judge concluding that a hunt saboteur was the real aggressor. During the appeal hearing at Nottingham Crown Court on August 29th and 30th, His Honour Judge
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The large group of hunt saboteurs who disrupted a grouse shoot at the Wemmergill Estate on 12th August boasted of being paid £200 each to aggravate guests and incite violence, according to an eyewitness. The observer, who we are choosing not to name for safety reasons, reported that the saboteurs
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In the early days of August the UK was shaken by outbreaks of riots, vandalism and thuggery on streets across the country. At the time of writing, over 1,000 individuals have been arrested and hundreds charged for their participation in these acts of violence. Some readers may look at
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Within its claim to introduce the “biggest boost to animal welfare in a generation” this weekend, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has allegedly promised to outlaw trail hunting, leading to widespread criticism. After Tony Blair’s government enforced the Hunting Act in February 2005, hunts across the UK sought to