When the Saboteur Becomes the Hunter
- Mar 6
- 4 min read
Updated: Mar 31
For someone who campaigns against legal trail hunting, Deborah Hall has developed quite a taste for the chase.
Deborah Hall is no ordinary sab. As BTM has previously reported, the Cornwall-based coordinator of Action Against Foxhunting is known to push well beyond the boundaries of reasonable protest. From her failed petition to ban trail hunting on council land to her bizarre crusade against a street sign in Madron, Hall has repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to escalate where others would draw the line.
Hall’s latest escapades, however, go far beyond petitions and council complaints. BTM has obtained evidence, including messages, photographs, and video footage, which paints a deeply troubling picture of a sab who has allegedly been stalking and intimidating a married couple for being connected to their local hunt.
Our local source tells us that on the 18 September 2025, Hall and fellow activist Liv Oliver were filmed turning up unannounced at the private home of local hunt followers in West Cornwall. Hall had apparently been to the local kennels first, looking for them. When she could not find them there, she drove to their home address instead.
These are not public figures. They are not politicians, campaigners, or anyone who has sought any kind of public profile. They are private citizens going about their daily lives in rural Cornwall. And yet, when Hall could not find them at the kennels, she allegedly took it upon herself to track them down at home.
The home visit was not a one-off. On one of her frequent visits, Hall defaced the property with propagandistic stickers, supporting the ban on trail hunting. She may preach that “animal eating spreads disease”, but the effects of plastic litter are far more degrading for our planet.
On a separate occasion, in September 2025, Hall and her predatory gang kept following these hunt followers from their home to a friend’s farm. No hunting was taking place that day; it was a merely ordinary day down in rural Cornwall. At this point, the police were called, but the sabs unfortunately fled the scene before they could be caught.
Hall doesn’t work alone - her followers are also obsessive and relentless. Perhaps most damning of all is that they know what they are doing is wrong. Footage of Hall and an unknown individual records her admitting to “trespassing” before asking after the “young kennel girl”. She follows this up with the lewd innuendo that the hunt supporter “likes them young. Young and blonde.”
The pattern does not end with home visits, sickening remarks and car pursuits. Hall has also been documented at the local kennels, watching and making her ominous presence felt.
Taken together, this evidence shows a sustained and deliberate campaign: turning up to a private home announced and uninvited, allegedly defacing property, following people by car to locations with legal hunting, verbal abuse and stakeouts. If the perpetrator were an ex-partner, a disgruntled neighbour or anyone other than a so-called animal rights activist, nobody would hesitate to speak about it.
Hall is not the only concerning figure in this story. On 14 February 2026, Ross Trevelyan Dawson, an ally of Hall’s, allegedly told a female hunt follower directly that he “likes to stare” at her because it will “make her quiver and look away”. This man is deliberately attempting to intimidate women.
As Halls clowns about, protesting for animal welfare, she leaves her own pets neglected. She is the self-appointed guardian of animal welfare, forever outraged on behalf of creatures she has never met, while on the 28 February, her own dog sits abandoned in a locked, airless car for the better part of an hour. She is not an advocate for animals. She is an advocate for the idea of herself as an advocate for animals, and that cause requires very little of her while costing the animals everything.
None of this exists in isolation. As BTM has previously reported, Hall has a well-documented history of campaigns of anti-trail hunting campaigns.
In 2021, she launched a petition demanding Cornwall Council ban trail hunt meets on council-owned and public land. The petition was criticised for being “anti-rural”, and it emerged that many of the signatories were not from Cornwall at all – some were from as far away as South Africa. The petition was quashed, with cross-party support from Conservative, Independent and Mebyon Kernow councillors for trail hunting to continue.
In 2022, Hall led a campaign against a street sign reading ‘Tally Ho’ in Madron – a sign installed at the request of residents so that delivery drivers could actually find them. Hall demanded it be removed and the road renamed. The council rightly pointed out that the lane had been known as Tally Ho since at least 2009 and noted that if they changed every nameplate that might offend someone, they would have to rename half of Cornwall.
For someone so animated by the so-called cruelty of ‘hunting’, Hall appears remarkably comfortable in the role of stalker. She tracks, she follows, she loiters, she returns. She turns up uninvited at homes, at kennels, at farms. She follows for months on end. She pursues people by car down country lanes. Whatever word she would choose for this behaviour, we think the most apt term is ‘predator’.
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