Hunt saboteur deliberately knocked down - wtf *NSFW distressing content*

some of you need to have a look at yourselves with the relish you seem to have for vigilante style revenge.

I'm not seeing anyone advocating that at all?

I know a few people in Knossington, and immediately thought of one woman who could be the culprit, but I'd guess she was more likely to be riding her horse at the time. She is a huge Hunt supporter, but, even she wouldnt be so daft as to drive her car like that.

even she wouldnt be so daft as to drive her car like that.

I just don't get it either. I know quite a few of the local hunt folk around here through various non-hunt (farming) contacts. Whilst there is no love lost between them and the antis (who are very active around here) the hunt folk are all hyper aware that they are always being filmed and not to do owt stupid.

I would say it's not clear she *deliberately* drove at someone. It may be (or may be claimed) she wasn't looking/didn't see.

I would say it's Def careless driving, poss dangerous driving. Not because of how those charges are worded, but what they actually mean in law.

She was arrested  'on suspicion of attempted wounding with intent'.  That at least sounds as if they are treating it very seriously and that the police initially think she deliberately drove at the woman

That at least sounds as if they are treating it very seriously and that the police initially think she deliberately drove at the woman

I don't think that the arresting charge has to have anything to do with what you're eventually facing in court. The police likely charged with that to reduce focus on the case (just charging with careless would inevitably get them bombarded with angry social media contact), which they can walk back to a driving charge whenever they want

No comment on hunts or hunt protesters, but that second vid is sickening, shocking and the woman is lucky not to have suffered serious injury, how she didn’t is frankly astonishing tbh.

The driver needs to be held accountable for that. Fek.

I don’t think that the arresting charge has to have anything to do with what you’re eventually facing in court

That I agree with but I hope that the arresting charge will reflect the amount of effort initially put in to collect information.  If charged with dropping litter I wouldn't expect much effort, if charged with attempt do deliberately injure someone then I would expect it to be taken more seriously.  In the end any charge will be one they think they have a reasonable chance of making stick.

woman is lucky not to have suffered serious injury,

if she hadn't moved 1ft to the left just before impact she'd probably be dead.

I’m not seeing anyone advocating that at all?

Exhibit A:

If she’s not charged and convicted then the sabs will know who she is. One way or the other she’ll end up regretting her actions.

That's not advocating, just commentary.

I've only skim read the replies but I assume most have clocked the fact the car in both clips is the same model/colour?

^^ It's the same incident?

That’s not advocating, just commentary.

Yup. I was neither condemning or condoning, just honestly describing what used to happen back in the 90s. TBH I don’t know what the approach is these days. I’ve not been near a hunt for 20 years (thank god).

All I know is that back then when sabs were maimed and killed they defended themselves, either at the time, or later on. I was around in Cheshire in the mid 90s when the stuff described in that article I posted was going on. We used to call it ‘the war’. Every time we went out we fully expected to end the day in either a police cell or A&E dept, and we often did.

All I know is that back then when sabs were maimed and killed they defended themselves, either at the time, or later on. I was around in Cheshire in the mid 90s when the stuff described in that article I posted was going on. We used to call it ‘the war’.

Ah, the good old 90s, when the ALF posted a letter through a friends door describing what they would do to his primary age daughter because he worked at a medical research lab.

There's been absolute scum on both sides of the hunting/welfare campaign for decades, whether they wear red jackets or black.

or later on

Yeah, pretty sure that legally that's not considered self-defence, more like retaliation.

****ing mentalists.

^^ It’s the same incident?

My mistake, for some reason I thought the first clip was a sab on a bike.

What has the fact that she is a pain in the arse got to do with it? Dozens of hits every year. Why are they all not posted here?