We keep a running list of notorious hunt saboteurs and their crimes. All information published is done so in the public interest, given the threat often posed to humans and animals by saboteurs.
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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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Location: Manchester/Huddersfield Affiliations: Anonymous for the Voiceless (AV), Palestine Action Rent-an-activist Ricky Frazer Southall seems to love nothing more than hopping on a bandwagon, including sabbing legal trail hunts. He’s also been charged with burglary and criminal damage after protesting for Palestine Action, an organisation that has been
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Location: West Lothian Affiliations: Head of Scottish Border Saboteurs Before turning to sabbing around the Scottish borders, Elizabeth Hart used to be Headteacher of Field Courts Infants Academy in Quedgeley, from January 2005 to June 2014. Her time in pastoral care, however, is forever tainted by irregularities surrounding financial management
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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
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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
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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
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Location: Bicester Affiliations: Bed and Bucks Hunt Saboteurs, MBR Beagles James Harkness is an ardent animal rights extremist. Besides sabbing legal trail hunts, Harkness has a criminal side. The Oxford Mail reported on 26 March that Harkness was handed a 12 month prison sentence suspended for two years, for one
Nottinghamshire
Location: Nottinghamshire Affiliations: Nottingham Hunt Saboteurs False Claims Against Hunt Supporters: In 2006, Ian Ross levelled false allegations against a hunt supporter, including accusations of assault and robbery during a trail hunt near Hay-on-Wye. The jury found the claims to be baseless and the case exposed what has become a
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Location: Selby Afilliations: York Anti-Hunt League, West Yorkshire Hunt Saboteurs Tracy Williamson is a prolific hunt saboteur, who has been spotted trespassing in order to bother and harass multiple hunt groups in the Yorkshire area. Williamson is known as something of a ringleader amongst the sab communities of northern England.
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Location: Gloucestershire Affiliations: South Wales Hunt Saboteurs Megan Thornbury, 44, is a sab who has been determined to keep undercover. Unfortunately, in December of 2015, she undid this when she was found guilty of three charges of assault, of which two of the victims were under the age of 18.
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Location: Yorkshire Affiliations: Nottingham Hunt Saboteurs, Animal Liberation Front Woodward, a builder who runs a B&B with his wife Debbie, and previously a Liberal Democrat Councillor of Pickering, Yorkshire, has been seen trespassing and abusing members of the hunt on several occasions. Notably in March 2018 at Scrayingham,
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Location: West Sussex Affiliations: Cheshire Hunt Saboteurs Spreads terror Blenkinsop is a notorious saboteur and animal rights extremist, with links to several organisations around the country. He has previously been sentenced to nearly a decade behind bars for various violent crimes, including assault and destruction of property. Originally from West