Great Britain’s Prison Service has reported that animal rights terrorist Barry Horne, 49, died in a Worcester hospital on November 5 after a short-lived hunger strike. The official cause of death was liver failure.
In 1997, Horne was sentenced to 18 years in jail for carrying out a series of arson attacks in Great Britain. Horne’s stiff sentence was directly related to the depravity of his crimes which seriously endangered human lives. Horne built incendiary devices, placed them in cigarette packs, and then hid them in stores that he claimed promoted animal cruelty. In one instance, for example, Horne hid a cigarette pack bomb in a leather bag that was subsequently purchased by a woman. The woman allowed her young children to play with the bag before the bomb was discovered, and only sheer luck prevented several deaths in this and many of Horne’s other criminal acts.
In 1998, Horne went on a hunger strike that lasted 68 days and also brought Horne near death. That was the longest of several hunger strikes Horne started during his 5 years behind bars.
Source:
Animal activist dies on hunger strike. The BBC, November 5, 2001.