AFTER THE SAB: Animal rights activist seriously injured after being deliberately trampled during fox hunt
We had been monitoring the to make sure they were not hunting foxes and I was on a public footpath. A group of around 15 to 20 horses galloped closely to us In an attempt to intimidate us. They then turned back around and started charging us.
ED CHATTERTON: An animal rights activist was left seriously injured after being “deliberately” mowed down by a horse during a hunt stampede. Terrifying footage of the incident shows the moment the 92 stone horse smashed into activist Sam Morley, sending the 37-year-old crashing to the ground in agony. Sam said he is lucky to be alive after the huntsman ploughed into him in Ash Magna, Shrops., leaving him hospitalised on Saturday afternoon.
The hunt saboteur had been monitoring the North Shropshire Hunt when he claims the group of around 15 to 20 riders “deliberately” rode towards him in a field. Paramedics and police were called to the scene before the factory worker was transferred to hospital on a spinal board. He has been left with concussion, a swollen temple as well as muscular trauma to his neck and upper back and has been unable to work since.
Sam, of Stoke-on-Trent, said: “We had been monitoring the hunt to make sure they were not hunting foxes and I was on a public footpath through a field at the time. “A group of around 15 to 20 horses galloped closely to us from behind at first, I guess in an attempt to intimidate us. “If that wasn’t enough, they then turned back around and started charging towards us”.
“We are told to stay still in these circumstances as you can never second the guess the direction the horses will go and the onus is on the rider to avoid a collision. “But this horse has crashed straight into me and I heard my bones crunch as it did so. I have no doubt it was deliberate and the footage speaks for itself. “I lost consciousness twice for a few seconds. These are 600kg animals and it’s like getting hit by a car… The impact just knocked the stuffing out of me completely,” he said…
Staffordshire Hunt Saboteurs released the dramatic footage on social media where it has been viewed almost 50,000 times in 24 hours. The video shows how Sam takes the full impact of the horse while a colleague shouts out: “We’ve got a sab run over by a horse.” Sam can be heard saying: “I felt everything in my back and neck crunch. Where am I bleeding? It’s all on camera”…
A spokesperson for the group claimed the huntsman fled from the scene laughing while Sam was left stricken on the ground… “We believe much of the anger from the hunt yesterday came from sabs successfully moving hounds away from woodland where a fox had been sighted, which the huntsman was attempting to flush with hounds”. SOURCE…
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