Jay Tiernan
- dereckhoward99
- 1 day ago
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Affiliations: Stop the Cull; Hunting Leaks; Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC); Animal Liberation Front (ALF)
Jay Tiernan (birth name: Gamal Eboe) rose to infamy through his Stop the Cull campaign and has a colourful CV: convicted fraudster, criminal saboteur, and, allegedly, the brains behind the doxing site Hunting Leaks. The site was dedicated to publishing the personal details of hunt subscribers and their businesses, with the clear intention of encouraging extremists to harass them.
Farmers and livestock owners who have suffered under Tiernan’s hands may wonder what he actually understands of countryside ways and the realities of farming. The answer is presumably very little: Tiernan was born in not-so-rural Hammersmith, London, and is the son a wealthy Lebanese property developer, Abdul Eboe.
It has also been revealed that Tiernan is a convicted fraudster. In 2003 he was handed an eight-month suspended sentence for submitting claims for £3,000 to the Department for Education for training students when he was actually on holiday in Greece. Did Eboe change his name to try to escape this fraudulent past to better present himself as an animal rights martyr? We can only assume so.
Hunting Leaks
Tiernan may be best known to BTM readers as being linked to Hunting Leaks, a website created to dox hunt subscribers and members. Personal phone numbers and exact addresses were published online, with sabs and antis encouraged to target and harass the individuals.
Tiernan and his gang encouraged supporters on social media to “ring people up all through the night”, bombarding and harassing them. The publication of their exact addresses was another scare tactic.
Criminal convictions and disregard of farmers
Tiernan is the proud holder of multiple criminal convictions for offences including aggravated trespass, criminal damage, and fraud. Most of these convictions date to his illegal activity while trying to disrupt the badger cull in the 2010s.
In August 2013 Tiernan was arrested for trying to gain access to a DEFRA compound in Gloucestershire.
In January 2015 he was found guilty – and slapped with a suspended sentence – of attempting to disrupt a cull, harassing officials from the National Farmers Union (NFU) and of failing to inform his supporters about the terms of the injunction.
Tiernan even boasted to the BBC that he owed the NFU £120,000 in legal costs. It is not known if that money has been paid.
Tiernan’s arrogant dismissal of the work of the NFU is a blatant disregard of the issues faced by British farmers. The badger cull was deemed necessary to halt the spread of bovine TB, a devastating disease that led to thousands of cattle being culled each year and the decimation of rural livelihoods.
The eradication of this disease is something the rural community takes very seriously – but when have animal rights activists ever actually cared about rural communities, their livelihoods, and their way of life?
In fact, when asked in 2015 if his criminal activism would hurt farmers, Tiernan said, “I really hope it does … not only in terms of sales; I hope it saps morale”.
Chick murderer
Tiernan’s ignorance of farming practices was demonstrated most vilely when his behaviour resulted in the death of 3,000 pheasant chicks belonging to a 23-year-old farmer in Kent.
Tiernan’s social media posts and campaigning directly encouraged the vegan protest that caused the killing of these birds after activists cut their fencing and gas pipes, leaving hundreds of week-old birds dead or gasping for food and water. Animal lovers? Apparently not.
Attempted Covid cash-grab from the elderly
During the height of Covid-19, on a Facebook post on Stop The Cull Tiernan encouraged those most at risk from succumbing to the disease (the elderly and people with chronic illnesses) to consider leaving money to the Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) in their will. Tiernan admitted his beg was “very morbid”, but that didn’t stop him particularly targeting individuals living with conditions like “high blood pressure or diabetes”.
Isolating during Covid must have been scary and unsettling enough for people in the most at-risk groups, without shameless cash-grabbers (remember: he is a convicted fraudster) like Tiernan reminding them of their mortality and begging for pennies once they’re dead. At BTM we find this behaviour particularly disgusting.
Judging by the comments, Stop The Cull’s usual supporters were pretty horrified at Tiernan’s shameless begging.
Involvement with SHAC
To top it all, Tiernan has been linked to the infamous Stop Huntindon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) campaign against Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) that was operational until 2014. SHAC was one of the most violent and notorious animal rights campaigns in UK history which targeted HLS scientists carrying out life-saving research at the institute in Cambridge. At times SHAC had in its ranks notable sabs Lynn Sawyer, Paula Lamont and Emily Hepburn.
The criminal campaign against these scientists included false allegations of child abuse, sending hoax bombs, and delivering sanitary towels allegedly contaminated with the AIDS virus to traumatise staff.
The campaign became so violent that it included extremists planting both fake and real explosive devices into the scientists’ cars. Other vehicles were set on fire and windows were smashed.
At one time, HLS managing director Brian Cass was severely beaten outside his home by three masked sabs using axe handles, among whom was extremist David Blenkinsop. In a separate incident, the company’s marketing director Andrew Gray was attacked with a chemical spray to his eyes and beaten.
