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Clarissa Dickson Wright - B list celebrity - pleads guilty to hunting

Keeptheban | 01.09.2009 11:04 | Animal Liberation

The so-called "celebrity" Chef, Clarissa Dickson Wright, has pleaded guilty to hunting.




The so-called "celebrity" Chef, Clarissa Dickson Wright, has pleaded guilty to hunting.

The overated "chef", and b-list celebrity, who thinks that she is alot more famous than she actually is, pleaded guilty to a charge of hare-coursing at Scarborough Magistrates Court this morning.

Everybody knows that the Police like to pick and choose which laws they want to enforce, and will turn a blind eye to laws that they don't want, which means that hunting offences almost always go uninvestigated.

As a result the conviction this morning was a result of a private prosecution brought by the International Fund for Animal Welfare.

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Serves her right !

01.09.2009 11:24

Just for a bit of background, she has also previously been charged with Drink Driving, she has been struck-off as a barrister, and has lost several jobs for her drunken behaviour.

Not a very nice lady - so this conviction is well deserved - at least she pleaded guilty and admitted it,

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Law in action

01.09.2009 11:56

So in other words the law worked, she broke, somebody reported it, she got convicted. Where's the story ?

Perry Mason

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Good Story

01.09.2009 12:06

Perry, the story is what Indymedia is all about - publishing news !! duh !

Also the wider issues that the police pick and choose which laws they enforce - you say "somebody reported it" - sure - but the police seem to pick and choose which laws that they want to enforce.

Things like this are left for people to pay for themselves to bring a private prosecution.

@sab

Police condemned by Judge...

01.09.2009 12:24

In a previous case last month (where the owner of the land was convicted) the Magistrate condemned the police who turned up to the coursing event and went away having done nothing to stop it. Why did this require a private prosecution, why won't the police uphold the law?

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In reply to: "why won't the police uphold the law"

01.09.2009 12:32

Because they have a darn sight more important things to do than worry about some old bint hunting !
The AR lobby on Indy really needs to understand that there are bigger issues in the world than their one.

Gregg

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For Gregg

01.09.2009 13:26

Gregg I feel sorry for you if you are unable to understand that animal rights IS the most important issue facing the world in the same way that slavery was before it. I know that climate change and the camp have dominated the news over the past week but that is a minor issue of little importance compared to the enslavement and murder of millions of our fellow animals.

This prosecution is vital.

Lynn Sawyer

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Question

01.09.2009 15:08

You are joking I presume ?

Gregg

reply to "Gregg"

01.09.2009 15:12

Hi "Gregg" - you are obviously a wind-up merchant by the fact that you have chosen that name.

Who cares.

Just for anyone else reading this - this whole case exposes a much wider issue.

Yes, she pleaded guilty to a criminal offence - but this only came about due to a PRIVATE PROSECUTION.

The Police are paid by taxpayers to uphold the law, and yet even when a clear and simple law, like the Hunting Act, is passed through parliament, and years later, the police still appear to be unable to respond to this legislation.

So it is left to individuals to donate to groups to provide the funding for a private prosecution - something we have paid for TWICE - with our taxes, to pay the police who didn't do the job that they are paid for by the taxpayer in this case.

There are hundreds of examples of people that have been physically assaulted by hunters, with witnesses and sometimes with photographic/video evidence - but the police do not want to get involved with hunting.

They pick and choose what laws that they want to enforce, and ignore serious crimes, if they are committed by hunters.

Well done to the International Fund For Animal Welfare for bringing this prosecution, and all who have donated to them.


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Gregg = Troll Alert

01.09.2009 15:17

Troll alert Troll Alert

Get lost "Gregg" - we know your game.

TROLL
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Gregg = Troll Alert

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Not sure about that

01.09.2009 15:20

"of little importance compared to the enslavement and murder of millions of our fellow animals."


mmmmmmm

Climate Camper

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Why the bigger issue ?

01.09.2009 15:37

The climate camp is important, of course it is but climate change is a theory, it's probably real but nothing compared to the slavery of animals all over the world.

What would you have done if you had heard abouit climate change at the same time you heard about the Holocaust. Which one would you have acted on first ?

Lynn Sawyer

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Well said Lynn

01.09.2009 15:42

Well said Lynn, we too have been frustrated at all the attention the climate camp has been receiving all the while animals are dying and being tortured all over the world. We need support, funding, people. Join us and prevent animal death.

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Climate camper - hippy probably with priviledged background

01.09.2009 15:46

Dear Climate Camper.

Glad that you were able to not work for a week, most working class people do not have this luxury, because we have bills to pay and our dads cant afford to bail us out.

Think about this.

The meat and dairy industry produces more greenhouse gasses than the entire transport sector put together.

SO - Climate Camper - I assume that you must surely be a vegan - if you are a GENUINE poster and not just a wind up merchant.

Yep - a vegan driving a Range Rover is doing less harm to the environment than a meat eater on a bicycle - FACT - an ecological fact that as a 'Climate Camper' I am sure that you will be aware of already.


SO - "Climate Camper" - and not a troll - you question the "enslavement of millions of animals" - surely as an educated "climate camper" - you would realise that millions of animals that we eat, need and AWFUL LOT OF FOOD - food that people need- 96% of the Soya Bean production worldwide is to provide animal feed - it takes 16Kg of Soyo protein to make 1Kg of meat. - very ineffiecient - but, as a "Climate Camper" I am sure that you already knew that.

as and educated individual, I am sure that you already knew that you get more calcium from brocolli and green leafy veg than you do from milk.

And as an educated "Climate Camper" - I am sure that you already knew that processed meat is the third largest cause of cancer after tobacco and alcohol - not my words but those of the International Cancer Research Trust - look it up.

Not to mention Heart Attacks - but then again, as an educated "Climate Camper" - you will be on a vegan diet, which consists of absolutely NO cholesterol and very very low levels of saturated fats, so you will not have to worry about a heart attack - you will not have one - just your friends that eat meat.

CLIMATE CAMPER - what was your point again ???
you were questioning the enslavement of animals - for your food and shoes ?

Think about it sonny.

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@Lynn

01.09.2009 16:21

What would you have done if you had heard about animal abuse at the same time you heard about the Holocaust. Which one would you have acted on first ?

Danny

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Danny - think about it !!

01.09.2009 16:35

pretty dumb question.

do you not think that this is a holcaust ?

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECJwRKngYB

Brand new footage.

The holocaust is happening every day around you - but you say nothing - because the victims cannot speak,

Nice one Danny - open another tin of beer and pretend that everything is all okay.

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In reply to Danny

01.09.2009 16:35

That's not relevant as I didn't.

Lynn Sawyer

link

01.09.2009 16:39

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECJwRKngYBs

@sab

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If ever further proof were needed...

01.09.2009 16:42

...that the animal rights lobby are a shower of deluded, dangerous lunatics here it is:

"animal rights IS the most important issue facing the world in the same way that slavery was before it."

Thanks for that Lynn.

Gregg

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@ sab

01.09.2009 16:43

No it's not a Holocaust and the animal rights movement does itself no favours by trying to pretend that the eating of animals is any in way related to the murder of millions of people in the name of ideology.

It's no wonder that groups like SHAC come over as swivle eyed lonnies most of the time when you use linkage of this sort.

People eat cows, lions eat zebras, crocs eat wilderbeast, cats eat mice. It's the circle of life and the sooner the animal rights loons can understand the difference between animal cruelty and veganism then there is a chance the world might move on a fraction !

Grown up

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THANK YOU - AT LAST !!! - took a while to get it out of you

01.09.2009 16:50

Cheers for the last two posts - took a while to get it out of you, but you finally fell for it and blew your cover.

An anti-SHAC troll - who has nothing better to do than troll the internet. - grow up yourself.

Just to remind you, Mr Troll, the ORIGINAL story was about someone that broke the law.

Yes- she committed a criminal offence - something that seems to have gone way over your head, just like it did with the police at the time.

But thanks to public donations, the second-rate chef, was brought to trial - and convicted, think about it Mr Troll - it might happen to you one day !

THANK YOU

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Film of a slaughterhouse ?

01.09.2009 16:50

So what did you think that inside a slaughterhouse it was pink wallpaper and soft music. It's a place where animals get killed for meat so I guess that some blood and guts is likely wouldn't you ?

Ever been inside a hospital, a mortuary, a rugby changing room all nasty places with blood etc but still quite normal.

Get over yourself Sab, you're looking like a nutcase on this thread

Enjoying a burger as I type

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You fell for it

01.09.2009 16:55

Cheers mate - took a while to get it out of you, but you blew your cover.

Your posts had nothing to do with Clarissa Dickson Wright - the CRIMINAL - you are sad anti-SHAC trolls that are prepared to defend criminals, and spend the whole day on the internet.

Sad Act

LOLOL - enjoying a burger

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Re the fake 'Lynn Sawyer'

01.09.2009 17:12

This is, again, somebody impersonating a well-known A.R. activist; no dobt the police or some other lonely twat.

It is common knowledge that the state fear collaborations and solidarity between political movements, and at the moment their key focus is to divide the A.R. and environmental campaigns. Solidarity, after all, is strength.

NETCU Watcher

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Re this post

02.09.2009 09:46

I have just got back from Climate Camp and noted that some bright spark had used my name in vain during my absense. For the record I completely support all activists fighting climate change, oppression, the arms trade, patriarchy etc. No-one can do everything but we can all support one another.
Interesting that Clarissa got an absolute discharge which is a rare thing certainly for those of us on the opposite side of the fence. The Hunting Act needs more teeth.

Lynn Sawyer

absolute discharge

04.09.2009 09:47

Of course, the silly cow wasn't given any sentence at all, having been given an absolute discharge- would much rather have seen her mucking out her local RSPCA shelter, though she'd need a muzzle to stop her eating the animals. (that's a comment on her attitude and values btw, not her size!)

Infinite Spark

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