After hospitalising a sab with a bleed on the brain a few weeks ago, the Avon Vale Hunt were asking for a mass hit. Fourteen of us travelled up the M5 on Saturday to team up with 12 other sab groups from around the country to show solidarity to the injured sab and let the hunt know that violence will only ever backfire on them.

The hunt met at Church Farm in Broughton Gifford and from the police presence residents would be forgiven for thinking the Queen was visiting! Ten Wiltshire police vehicles, including riot vans, plus a police helicopter and an unmarked car with a ‘police liaison team’, were on hand to act as private security for these violent wildlife criminals. If anyone in Wiltshire was a victim of crime on Saturday and struggled to get a response, now you know why!

Sab vehicles were stopped by police, sabs were unlawfully detained on public footpaths, a sab was arrested and later released without charge, and other sabs were threatened with arrest for trespassing. The same police officer who threatened to arrest sabs was earlier seen laughing and shaking hands with members of the hunt. A formal complaint will be made against him and his colleagues.

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