Animal Rights Extremists Sentenced to Prison

For six years, animal rights activists targeted a family and its guinea pig breeding business. The extremists waged a campaign of threats, burglary, terror, and grave robbing before they were arrested and prosecuted.

From BBC.co.uk:

Jon Ablewhite, 36, of Manchester, Kerry Whitburn, 36, and John Smith, 39, both of the West Mids, were jailed for 12 years for conspiracy to blackmail.

Josephine Mayo, 38, of Birmingham, was jailed for four years.

They targeted David Hall and Partners, a family business which ran the breeding programme at a farm in Newchurch, Staffordshire.

The campaign included protests outside Darley Oaks Farm, a burglary in which 600 guinea pigs were freed and threats to family members, friends and employees.

But it was the theft of Gladys Hammond's body from a graveyard in nearby Yoxall in October 2004 that "appalled and disgusted people nationwide," said Det Ch Insp Nick Baker.

Mrs. Hammond's body was ultimately recovered and is destined for reburial in a churchyard.

This animal rights group is particularly nasty. Evil, I would say. They researched the Internet to identify people associated with the Hall family and then sent them death threats. Also, they threw bricks through windows and set off explosions outside the homes of farm workers. Even with international terrorism occupying everyone's mind, efforts need to be sustained to shut down these domestic terror groups.