Sheep magazine archive 1: issues 3-9

Once I started to feel better I asked
my solicitor to find out why a security
guard was present during my triage. The
reason given was because the police
had told the hospital that they thought I
could be potentially dangerous.
I was also able to identify my attacker to
the police who asked him in for interview
... he was never arrested. Nothing ever
came of it.
Another example of how the police
protect fox hunting happened a few
years ago with the Quorn hunt. The
police claimed that they were using a
section 60 and section 60 aa power to
be able to detain sabs. (Section 60 is
part of the Criminal Justice and Public
Order Act 1994 which allows a police
officer to stop and search a person
without suspicion) They demanded the
right to search sabs. I refused believing
this was an unlawful stop and search.
I was arrested and charged with
obstructing a police officer. I was given
ridiculous bail conditions including that
I couldn’t go to any organised fox hunt
in the UK (funny that as there shouldn’t
be any organised fox hunts since it’s
supposed to be illegal). I also couldn’t
enter Leicestershire at all. Bearing in
mind I was charged with ‘obstructing a
police officer’ these bail conditions did
not reflect the charge ... so yet again the
police mis-use their powers to protect the
blood junkies.
This also happened during the first
badger cull in Gloucestershire, where
I was arrested for apparently waving
a torch in the field and therefore
breaking a high court injunction. My
bail conditions imposed then were that I
could not enter Gloucestershire. All this
for apparently waving a torch in a field.
What I witnessed that night was shocking,
around 50-60 police officers surrounded
a badger sett trying to stop protestors
from stopping the badger cull. The police
always claim that they are impartial
at protests ... utter bollocks! On this
occasion the police accused me of trying
to set fire to the police van whilst in
handcuffs in a single cell compartment.
How could that even be physically
possible? However it was enough for the
police officer to ask the desk sergeant
for me to be strip-searched at the police
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