Four animal rights activists were convicted Tuesday of blackmailing companies that supplied an animal testing laboratory.
A jury in Winchester, southern England, convicted Gerrah Selby, Daniel Wadham, Gavin Medd-Hall and Heather Nicholson of orchestrating a campaign against suppliers of Huntingdon Life Sciences between 2001 and 2007.
They will be sentenced on Jan. 19 along with three people who earlier pleaded guilty to conspiracy to blackmail.
One defendant, Trevor Holmes, was acquitted.
Huntingdon Life Sciences has been a long-standing target of animal rights extremists.
The four, members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, …
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