THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE NICKLIN Approved Judgment
MBR Acres Ltd -v- Free the MBR Beagles
“It is clear that protections are needed to protect our suppliers. It is clear that the protests against them are linked because they operate with us. They are lawfully allowed to deal with us and yet they have to experience being targeted and harassed.”
31. In her seventeenth witness statement, Ms Pressick complains of the following: (1) On 26 July 2022, at 09.16, photographs were posted on the Free the MBR Beagles Facebook page showing graffiti that had been painted onto the walls of Impex’s office including the words “ scum ” and “ puppy killers ”. Several windows were smashed. A caption of the photographs included the words: “… Activists arriving at Impex, Couriers of Cruelty, were met with a real sight for sore eyes this morning. Windows have been smashed and daubed with paint in an act of defiance. The secret’s out [name], everyone knows what you get up to now and it seems that decent people just aren’t prepared to put up with it.” (2) That same day, the Twelfth Defendant, tweeted: “Impex (Scumpex) are the weakest link for MBR I believe we should step up protests outside this scumhole every day… Remember there is no injunction in place at this hellhole. I believe limited suppliers in the uk of those who transport animals to labs it has been said. Let’s close down Scumpex” (3) On 27 July 2022, at 05.55, further photographs were posted on the Free the MBR Beagles Facebook page showing the windows of Impex’s offices boarded up and Free the MBR Beagles posters stuck on top of the boarding. The caption stated: “ Loving the newly installed notice boards [name] ”. (4) On 28 July 2022: (a) at 05.33, further photographs were posted on the Free the MBR Beagles Facebook page showing further Free the MBR Beagles posters stuck on the boarded-up windows. The caption stated: “ I get took down but I go up again. You are never gonna keep me down… ”;
(b)
at 06.42, further photographs were posted on the Free the MBR Beagles Facebook. One was a photograph of the Managing Director of Impex with the caption “ providing services to the vivisection industry ”; at 11.05, the Twentieth Defendant posted a video on her Facebook page showing the Managing Director of Impex leaving the site. An unidentified protestor can be heard shouting from behind the camera at the Managing Director, “ Twat, you’re a mess! Look at you! ”. The Twentieth Defendant is alleged to have said: “ Your windows look good… ”. It is alleged that the Twentieth Defendant and an unidentified protestor obstructed the Managing Director’s vehicle so that he was unable to leave. The caption to the video states: “ The monster this morning trying to hide his face, despite us all having seen it already.
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