Posted on 10/11/2004 7:29:14 PM PDT by Ginifer
People who desecrated the grave of an 82-year-old woman in what is believed to be an animal rights protest also stole most of her corpse.
It was thought at first that the body of Gladys Hammond had been dug up and tampered with. But detectives disclosed that many bones had been removed.
Gladys Hammond: 'very much loved'
Witnesses saw two men acting suspiciously around the grave at St Peter's Church in Yoxall, Staffs, on Wednesday.
Mrs Hammond, who died seven years ago, is the mother-in-law of Chris Hall, who with his brothers, John and David, owns a nearby guinea pig farm, providing the animals for medical research.
One of the farm's biggest customers is said to be the controversial Huntingdon Life Sciences laboratory in Cambridgeshire.
For five years members of staff at Darley Oaks Farm in Newchurch have been the target of a sustained campaign of harassment and intimidation by animal rights campaigners who want to force the business to close. They have received death threats and hate mail, had their property vandalised and malicious rumours spread about them.
Det Chief Insp Nick Baker declined to comment on which bones had been taken and urged those responsible "to examine their consciences" and come forward.
Officers believe that two men spent about four hours desecrating the grave between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
Mr Baker said: "Over the weekend we completed our forensic analysis of the scene and we can confirm that most of the remains of Gladys Hammond are missing. We have found nothing during a search of the area and can only assume that the body parts have been taken away.
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That's sick!
Bizarre.
How does desecrating an old lady's grave help animals?
Strange, very strange.
Ed Gein Lives!
Probably stole her bones to either use them as ransom to close their business or to do some twisted sick moral equivalence type protest with them.
Put these sick people away.
The cult of animal worship has too many followers in England. These perps should face long prison terms.
According to John Toland's biography of Adolp Hitler, he too was an anti-vivisectionist. For such people humans are the last to be considered. It matters not to these radicals that rodents in medical research could ease the suffering of sick children or even help cure dread dieseases.
wow these people are really sick
Satanic, is more like it.
Animal rights, Earth First, Gaia, new-age religion, Satanism...
The dots may not connect directly, but they seem awfully close to me.
How can they claim they are standing up for the rights of anything or anyone? They are so sick.
Only in a sick twisted animal wackos mind can something like this have meaning.
To them it's a guinea pig holocaust. Anything justifies their actions.
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa,
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the happy home. With trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!
Yep,a lot of the animal rights idiots have strange,sick beliefs.
Hate to be the one to break this to ya but we have animal worshipers here too. Yes even here on FR.
There have been earlier stories about the "animal rights protesters" trying to shut down these guys, it's been going on for at least four years !
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/3727180.stm
The perps: http://www.liberation-mag.org.uk/Newchurch.htm
I recall a nt verse saying something about "worshipping the creation rather than the Creator"..cant recall the verse..maybe it was Paul
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