Hunt Sabs from North + East London and Essex and Suffolk attended the joint meet of the Essex Farmers + Union and East Essex Foxhounds at Roundbush near Maldon, Essex. At around 12.30 the red coated huntsmen were trying to attack sabs and force them down a steep bank using there horses and whips as weapons. During this attack a different group of sabs in another field managed to get all the hounds away from the hunt. The hunt went on to attack the second group of sabs with one female sab needing hospital treatment to an injury on her nose. At 1pm the hunt had moved to Mundon Hall, as a group of sabs arrived with the police one of the huntsmen produced a dead fox and threw it to the hounds right in front of the sabs, to the cheers of all the sick bastards on horse back and the stick wielding support on foot. Some members of the hunt then used there horses as weapons riding into sabs, the Police did nothing and even tried to get in the way of filming the hounds tearing the fox apart. After a while all of the sabs were forced back to road by the police. The hunts terrier man Bryn Chittendon also rode at sabs on his quad bike wearing a balaclava, again in front of police who looked on.
Sabs continued to disrupt the rest of the days sport.
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Sabs continued to disrupt the rest of the days sport.
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There is a purpose to hunting
07.12.2004 21:52
jamie
more pictures and info
07.12.2004 22:53
field thug
dim wit with stick
another sab
jamie.. mate
08.12.2004 01:17
if you think those are 'horror' pictures, then fair enough. it's a horrific business. we're not dressing it up, this is what goes on. we're fighting the real problem - what are you doing?
bob 'fred' dibnah
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Hunt convictions and violence in Essex
08.12.2004 10:50
Roger Wakefield, Essex and Farmers Union Terrierman, given 160 hours community service after being found guilty of violent disorder and affray against saboteurs. Hunt supporter, Bryn Chittenden was also convicted of the same offences and given 120 hours community service.
Anne Hull (40) of Maldon Road, Burnham was found guilty in of aiding and abetting interference with a badger sett. But Chelmsford Crown Court overturned the conviction at an appeal hearing on 2/11/01 after ruling there was no direct evidence linking Hull with the blocking of a badger sett. The court heard how Hull was a joint master of The Essex Farmers and Union Hunt when the six-hole badger sett was partially blocked by earth-stopper and terrierman Bryn Chittenden.
The chairman of the Essex Foxhounds and two of his hired stewards paid a total of £1053 in damages to three L.A.C.S. officials, after the stewards had forcibly removed them from land. The L.A.C.S. people were pushed around and threatened by the hired thugs.
Hunt saboteurs in East Anglia are fuming after a hunt supporter guilty of assaulting a female protestor and a policeman was given a 12 month bind over on 21/6/02 by Bury St Edmunds magistrates. "This amounts to nothing more than a slap on the wrists for him and a slap in the face for us" said one member of Suffolk and Essex Sabs, the local hunt saboteur group. Sabs had been using non-violent direct action to prevent the Suffolk Hunt killing foxes when Martin Nunn, a supporter of the hunt who is also known to help out with kennel duties, attacked a hunt saboteur. When a policeman intervened to halt the attack, he too was assaulted. The incident at Wepstead near Bury St Edmunds was clearly captured on video. Hunt Saboteurs Association spokesperson Nathan Brown commented: "Is it any wonder that hunt supporters continue to attack people who protest against them when this is the punishment they receive?
Supporters of the Puckeridge Foxhounds, Ronald Edwards and his son Steven, bound over for a year by the sum of £200 after an incident in which a sab was beaten unconscious. Another hunt heavy was also fined £100 with £303.41 costs and compensation for damage caused to a saboteur's car, when he crushed it with his own.
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Twenty-six saboteurs were arrested by Essex Police at a meet of the Essex Foxhounds in 1993, all randomly, some violently. Many were arrested with one offence and then charged with another, they were held over night then collectively charged with Violent Disorder and released that evening. The case collapsed. For those unable to get legal aid the cost of seeking some justice was too restrictive for them to proceed. A handful received payouts from the force of between £2000 and £3000, totalling over £30,000. Most of the pay-outs were for Wrongful Arrest, Unlawful Detention, Malicious Prosecution and Assault and were settled out of court.
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Ros Kavenagh was awarded £2,500 by Essex Police after they arrested her unlawfully at a hunt meet in the county. The next time she attended a meet in the area they reported their unlawful and violent actions and were subsequently forced to award her a further £5,000*
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Three saboteurs received £500 each for, variously, Unlawful Arrest, Detention and Assault in an out of court settlement with Essex Police after they were arrested for various public order offences at a hunt meet in the county during the cub hunting season at the end of 1993. One was for refusing to give his personal details within earshot of hunt terrier-men, a misdemeanor for which he was raised off the ground by his throat by a police officer until he passed out.
Nels SAb
Your opinion
28.09.2005 12:48
Sarah and ellie
Achiving What?
29.09.2005 14:45
Liam