But yesterday, Heather James, of the
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty group, warned: "If anything, this will just act as an incentive for us.
The four, members of
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, pleaded guilty at Winchester Crown Court on the eve of their trial.
Nicholson, a founder of
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty with links to the Animal Liberation Front, was locked up for 11 years after she was convicted last month at Winchester Crown Court of conspiracy to blackmail.
Top members of
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (Shac) blackmailed and intimidated businesses that supplied the animal testing company - or even had secondary links with it.
Manager Vincent Howard said he and his family lived in fear after it is alleged activists from
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty started to target the company and its staff in 2004.
All charges relate to the campaign group
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC).
Mr Lawson-Cruttenden said: "The main defendant group - our opponent - is Stop Newchurch Guinea Pigs but it is our clients' case that Shac (
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty), Speak Campaigns, and the Animal Liberation Front are all involved in the campaign."
The group
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (Shac) has widened its campaign to target all companies that have any dealings with HLS.
Today in a rare interview Greg Avery, who heads the Worcestershire-based
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (Shac), lifts the lid on what life is really like as the leader of a militant animal rights organisation.
The announcement came five days before an animal rights activist group,
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, was, planning a return visit to Little Rock to protest Stephens' investment in HLS, but Stephens spokesman Frank Thomas said the decision to sell was not related to the protester pressure.
Demonstrators from the
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty group waved banners outside the Shell fuel depot at Gillmoss Industrial Estate on the East Lancs Road yesterday.
However,
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) said last night they would continue to target the bank until the arrangement is ended.
