Thanks, Cameraboy, for your support and for sticking around with us. I wish mainstream Journalists had the commitment you do!

I just wanted to clarify that Animal Aid is a national campaign group. Animal Aid Cambridge was a local contact group for that national group many years ago but is now known as Animal Rights Cambridge. Pat was a co-founder of the Cambridge group and the Cambridge contact for Animal Aid.

We are calling for an end to animal experiments at Cambridge University, Addenbrookes, Huntingdon Life Sciences and at Babraham. In the lab animals are isolated, starved, burned, blinded, poisoned and irradiated. The laboratory is a sterile, non-stimulating environment that prevents animals from displaying natural behaviours – if this was happening outside of a lab it would be considered illegal animal cruelty.

Pat was particularly interested in campaigning against the animal research conducted at the University of Cambridge. We are calling on the University and all animal researchers in Cambridge to end the use of these cruel, unnecessary and misleading 'animal model' tests and to use the funds saved for modern, human relevant research instead.

The group wish to remember Pat's life in this action. Pat was committed, caring and always there when the animals needed her. Pat was the sort of person that was, and remains, an inspiration to us all in her compassionate out look and dedication to the cause.

I stuck around because I enjoyed your company and believe the cause to be a noble and just one.

It is time we abolished this form of slavery and became a lot more civilised ourselves as a species.

It is also time we stopped believing that the rest of the planet and the other species upon it are there for us to exploit as we see fit for our own personal gain. In fact it is precisely this deluded superior attitude which causes much of the ecological mess we create in the first place.

This is NOT a lesson we should be teaching our children, and I hope that should more enlightened times come, Animal Rights activists will be seen in the same light as Civil Rights activists, as they have much in common in form and spirit.

However, this will not happen while we have billion dollar Cattle Ranches destroying Rainforests.