While running from the scene Currie abandoned a second device in the garden of a nearby home, before being arrested by police. The laboratory and its suppliers have been the subject of a sustained campaign by animal rights activists opposed to their activities. The court heard Currie had been arrested on March 26 in Caversham, Reading, after trying to bomb a car belonging to the husband of Caroline Brooks, director of a courier firm that has worked for Britain's biggest testing laboratory, Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS). We consider his arrest and conviction to be a significant event." He will be sentenced on September 28.Ī senior source at Thames Valley police said later yesterday: "It is our belief that Currie was the main active bomber for the Animal Liberation Front. A man described as the Animal Liberation Front's top bomber is facing jail after admitting he carried out explosive attacks on the homes of a number of people with connections to a pharmaceutical research laboratory.ĭonald Currie, 40, pleaded guilty at Reading crown court to four charges of arson, one of attempted arson, and two counts of possessing explosives with the intent of carrying out further explosions.
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