THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE NICKLIN Approved Judgment
MBR Acres Ltd -v- Free the MBR Beagles
but it appears from the information that he provided to Ms Pressick that this is the Managing Director of Impex who has more recently provided a letter to the Claimants (see [32] below). (1) As to the incident with the Third Defendant on 18 January 2022, the Impex Director told Ms Pressick that the Third Defendant, with three other protestors (who were wearing masks), had approached the Director, who was in his car and are alleged to have started to abuse the Director through his car window, calling him a “ cunt ”, “ animal murderer ’ and telling the Director that he “ should be ashamed ”. (2) The Director told Ms Pressick that he had spoken to the police. From information they provided, he understood that protestors had started arriving at the site at around 04.45. Two protestors had handcuffed themselves to the front gate of the site. Protestors used a lock to secure the gate shut, thereby preventing access to the premises. In total, some 20-25 protestors had been at the site. The Director told Ms Pressick that the majority had their faces covered and he understood from the police that they did not provide them with their details. (3) Ms Pressick states that, from photographs of those who had climbed onto the roof at the Impex premises, one of those was the Twenty Fifth Defendant. She did not recognise the other individual. She also identifies the Third and Twentieth Defendants as having been present at the demonstration outside the Impex premises, wearing beagle outfits. (4) The Impex Director told Ms Pressick that, at 14.00 on 18 January 2022, protest management officers from Northamptonshire Police attended the Impex premises. They told the protestors that they had two hours to leave the site or face arrest. By around 16.00 the protestors had left. The police told the Impex Director that four protestors had been cautioned and advised that, if they returned within three months, they would be arrested. No attempt appears to have been made by the Claimants to obtain the identity of these four protestors from the Northamptonshire Police. (5) Ms Pressick notes that, on the Free the MBR Beagles Facebook page, it was reported that two “ activists ” had locked themselves to the front gates of the Impex premises. (6) At 12.25 on 18 January 2022, i.e. before the demonstration at Impex’s premises, seven masked protestors had turned up at the Impex Director’s home and did the acts identified in [24(iii)] above. They are not identified. The protestors were present for about 15 minutes. The Director called the police, but officers arrived about 5 minutes after the protestors had left. (7) The Impex Director told Ms Pressick that, on 20 January 2022, four unidentified protestors came to his house and tried to pick the lock of his gate. He called the police, who arrived quickly, but there were no arrests. (8) On 25 January 2022, there was another protest outside the Impex premises. Ms Pressick states that photographs show that the Sixth and Twentieth
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