[16 AUG 00] CRIMES, FIRES & ACCIDENTS
Coventry Pair Arrested In Animal Rights Raid

Police from Cambridgeshire raided a house in Coventry today as part of an operation against suspected animal rights activists.

They raided a house in Sir Henry Parkes Road, Canley, shortly after 5am. A woman aged 33 and a 32-year-old man were arrested and taken to Cambridgeshire to be interviewed.

At the same time addresses in Evesham and Cambridgeshire were raided and two other people were arrested.

A factory unit in Evesham was also visited by officers and paraphernalia associated with the animal rights movement was seized

All four were arrested on suspicion of inciting harassment, inciting grievous bodily harm and inciting criminal damage.