Grand National horse racing activists found not guilty over 2023 protests
The six animal welfare campaigns were cleared of causing the problems of the people against the protests they organized in the Great National.
In 2023, nine activists climbed to the surrounding fences in Aintree and went to the runway to show the race against the staging.
Some attributed themselves to jumping as part of the protest, brought the race track to stop and delayed the beginning.
Others tried to stick themselves to the security fence on the track, but it was ruled by the police.
Officers, 118 people were interrupted for saying that they had criminal offenses and crimes of public shortage.
The protesters claimed that the races persecute horses through exhausting training, whipping and painful injuries.
Since 2007, the monitoring by Animal AID shows that at least 3,071 horses have died in the United Kingdom races. Three of them died in the Great Milli in 2023, and a fourth was allegedly died of an infection after a injury there.
On Wednesday, six members of the campaign organization Animal Rising, who rejected public distress in Liverpool Crown Court, were not found guilty of unanimous jury decisions.
A key defense was “reasonable excuse ,, the law of public shortages. The defendants claimed that the horses justified the actions of their pain and deaths.
Animal Rising showed that the result is not a crime of 12 randomly selected members’ breakdown of a race to prevent damage to horses.
The horses must jump the fences 30 times on the four miles of the Great National course.
Sarah McCaffrey, a 22 -year -old from Glasgow, one of the cleaned, said: “More than 450 horses have been killed in the races since we tried to stop the Great National.
“As a country of animal lovers, we know horses as intelligent, beautiful and complex individuals. However, when they serve their goals, they are treated as objects to profit, exploit and then throw them.”
He called the State Secretary Lisa Nandy to prohibit the horse race.
This was the first of the five Great National Royal Courts trial for the fact that the other 23 animals caused public boredom. Another hearing starts on Monday.
