Support Bryan Griffiths - Charged with murder over hunt death

Two Hunt Monitors were in a privately owned Gyrocopter. The Gyrocopter landed for fuel and at least one of the hunt suppoters went up to confront the Hunt Monitors. Sadly in doing so the hunt supporter was hit by the gyrocopter and died. Sam Butler, of the Warwickshire Hunt, said it was a "tragic but fatal accident".

As some ELP supporters will be aware, last week there was a terrible and tragic accident during whilst Hunt Monitors monitored a Fox Hunt to ensure they did not break the law.

Two Hunt Monitors were in a privately owned Gyrocopter. The Gyrocopter landed for fuel and at least one of the hunt suppoters went up to confront the Hunt Monitors. Sadly in doing so the hunt supporter was hit by the gyrocopter and died. Sam Butler, of the Warwickshire Hunt, said it was a "tragic but fatal accident".

However, despite the obvious facts this was an accident, the police decided to arrest the two people in the gyrocopter on suspicion of murder!!! As a result of that, Bryan Griffiths (the pilot of the gyrocopter) has now been formally charged with murder and has been remanded into custody.

This is such a blatent miscarriage of justice its unbelievable and if anyone is a member of Amnesty International we encourage them to contact Amnesty about this. In the mean time please send urgent letters of support to:

Bryan Griffiths XW8892
HMP Hewell
Hewell Lane
Redditch B97 6QS
England

Bryan is a vegetarian.

Please remember,when writing to Bryan that he is up on a very very very serious charge,so despite your views on fox hunting, don't say anything like "the bastard deserved it" or anything like that. This was a tragic accident and Bryan never intended to even injure the hunt supporter, yet alone kill him.

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Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network
BM Box 2407
London
WC1N 3XX
England

http://www.spiritoffreedom.org.uk

anti-hunt

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Double standards.

19.03.2009 13:16

Needless to say that when hunt monitors and sabs have been attacked and killed by the hunt fraternity, there has never been a prosecution against the perpetrators. Mike Hill was a clear case of manslaughter at the very least, it could be argued that it was outright murder by the van driver who saw him being dragged along and carried on failing to stop. How is this considered any different?

Another matter of double standards relates to the fact that illegal hunting is still going on. Yet again, the force of bent law and order fails to act. This, when hunt sabs are persecuted for their legal activity.

Siobhan

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totally disagree

19.03.2009 19:42

>> "Sam Butler, of the Warwickshire Hunt, said it was a "tragic but fatal accident".
>> "However, despite the obvious facts this was an accident,...."

I don't think Sam Butler or youself are remotedly qualified to say if it was an accident or not. It sounds like an accident. But it also doesn't sound out of the realms of possibility of being a murder in the heat of confrontation. More likely, it is the equivilent of dangerous/careless driving, which in itself is a very serious offence. So I think its fair enough to at least be investigated. To not do so would be incompetent.

Being charged doesn't even mean you'll get sent to court. Charging someone can just be a way of continuing the investigation especially if the person is not being helpful in the police enquiries. Sometimes it is the only way of keeping someone in custody for the investigation to continue.

And how can charging someone with murder be a "latent miscarriage of justice". Justice is decided at a court not a police station, so to call it a miscarriage is totally ridiculous. There is no conviction to be miscarriaged. I really can't understand what you are trying to dispute?

Saying "double standards" when the guy hasn't even been convicted yet (if he ever will) is even more ridiculous. Double standards that someone has been charged because they have driven a gyrocopter into a person resulting in their death? Of course they are going to get charged with something. If you kill someone, it is very likely you will get charged no matter what the circumstances.

mike

Get your values right

04.04.2009 21:08

Once again we see violence carried out by animal rights activists. We all want to see animals treated better, but human life is far more important. A man has lost his life in a horrible incident - he leaves family and friends in deep shock and grief - what about him? If Griffiths is guilty of his murder he deserves to put away for life. Peole like him who use violence and intimidation against other human beings are no better than terrorists and are worse than the people who experiment on animals. These people are losing us support so lets get real people!

John Brown
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