Protect Our Wild Animals Ltd is very pleased that Bryan Griffiths,
the gyrocopter pilot in the recent court case, has today been acquitted.
Although
Mr Griffiths is not part of POWA, he has liaised with a few associates of POWA in the course of his monitoring activities.
These associates (together with others who are not associates) undertake their monitoring activities as independent individuals.
Notes for Editors:
Details of threatening and abusive behaviour by hunts towards hunt monitors
have been revealed during the course of this trial, showing the very difficult, dangerous and hostile circumstances in which
hunt monitors have to work in order to try to collect evidence of illegal hunting.
Two anti-hunt protesters
have been killed by vehicles driven by hunt supporters (Michael Hill 9th Feb 1991 and Thomas Worby 3rd April 1993). At
least two protesters have been maimed for life and scores hospitalised by hunt supporters. Hunt
monitors are regularly attacked and threatened, intimidated in their homes, their vehicles damaged, cameras damaged or stolen,
and dead animals left on their doorsteps.
