A regional director of the Countryside alliance was one of a number of pro-hunt supporters removed by police from the Waterloo Cup.
For the final time the Lord Leverhulme’s estate, owned by London property magnate Lee Magner and his wife Janet, played host to the Waterloo Cup at Altcar.
Hundreds of anti-hunt campaigners who had gathered to protest against the hare coursing event were met with a barrage of missiles, included a dismembered hare, bottles, cans, stones and lumps of mud thrown by pro-hunt supporters. Live fireworks were also thrown at protestors despite the presence of police officers being on horseback.
Not to be outdone Clare Rowson, the West Midland Regional Director of the Countryside Alliance, inflamed the already toxic atmosphere by waving a fox brush at protestors.
During the protest police arrested several hunt and coursing supporters for public order offences.
Despite extreme provocation not a single anti-hunt protestor was arrested during their peaceful protest.
Quote of the day
“I’m absolutely, 100 per cent certain that the Waterloo Cup will take place in some form in 2006. It may not be here, it may not even be in this country, and it may be in a different form.” Simon Hart, chief executive of the Countryside Alliance failing to grasp the fact that if the Waterloo Cup is not held at Altcar it isn’t in fact the Waterloo Cup.
