Barry Horne
Barry Horne was an Animal Liberation activist, prisoner and hunger striker who died in 2001 in prison on hunger strike against vivisection.
-1988 Barry and others are arrested attempting to liberate Rocky the dolphin from Marineland, Morecambe. The subsequent campaign led to the release of Rocky and the ending of captive dolphins in the UK.
-1990 Barry and others raid Interfauna breeders (now MBR Acres Ltd.), animals to be sold to labs for toxicity testing down the road at Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS)/Covance. 82 beagles and 26 rabbits were liberated.
-1991 Barry receives a 3 year prison sentence for possession of explosive substances, an action that was to be directed at HLS.
-1994 Barry launches a high street arson campaign against companies involved in vivisection, mainly Boots. Oxford, Cambridge, York, Harrogate, Newport and Ryde on the Isle of Wight were all targeted. Boots stores were gutted and his actions helped push Boots into selling their animal testing labs.
-1996 Barry is arrested in Bristol city centre planting incendiary devices in stores after a huge scale police operation and remanded to prison.
-1997 January Barry carries out a 35 day hunger strike against vivisection to help bring it back onto the movement's agenda. As a result demonstrations, liberations and direct action increase.
-1997 August Barry carries out a 46 day hunger strike with more actions carried out to support him and a protest camp set up at HLS. The Government promises change regarding vivisection.
1997 November Barry is sentenced to an outrageous 18 year prison sentence, the longest ever given at that point to an Animal Liberationist.
1998 Barry carries out a 68 day hunger strike demanding the New Labour Govt. honours it's pre-election pledge of a Royal Commission into vivisection. This was global news at the time.
2001 November 5th Barry dies in prison on hunger strike against vivisection, from the damage of the 68 day hunger strike. As a friend and as an activist he is still sorely missed by his old comrades and the movement.
