Activists arrested for robbery of a chicken from sun valley have case dropped

Two activists that where arrest­ed in con­nec­tion with the theft of a live chick­en from the Sun Val­ley Foods slaugh­ter­house in Here­ford were today told the police would be tak­ing no fur­ther action against them.

One of the activists was arrest­ed whilst leav­ing the site whilst the oth­er, who was acussed of actu­al­ly remov­ing the chick­en, vol­un­tar­i­ly attend­ed the police sta­tion at a mutu­al date.

Two activists that where arrest­ed in con­nec­tion with the theft of a live chick­en from the Sun Val­ley Foods slaugh­ter­house in Here­ford were today told the police would be tak­ing no fur­ther action against them.

One of the activists was arrest­ed whilst leav­ing the site whilst the oth­er, who was acussed of actu­al­ly remov­ing the chick­en, vol­un­tar­i­ly attend­ed the police sta­tion at a mutu­al date.

The Sun Val­ley site in Here­ford is one of the largest poul­try abat­toirs in the UK and the cost of the chick­en to them is under 50p how­ev­er this did not stop the com­pa­ny from kick­ing up a fuss but due to poor CCTV evi­dence and failed iden­ti­fi­ca­tion by wit­ness­es, West Mer­cia Con­stab­u­lary have decid­ed there is insuf­fi­cient effi­dence to pros­e­cute. Sun Val­ley are respon­si­ble for sup­ply­ing chick­en to McDon­alds and many oth­er major super­mar­ket chains; includ­ing the Co-Op Group who pride them­selves ona high eth­i­cal and ani­mal wel­fare poli­cies.

See also — http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/01/389024.html

West­ern Ani­mal Rights Net­work
e‑mail: info@animalliberation.co.uk
Home­page: http://www.animalliberaton.co.uk