British animal rights activist Robert Moaby plead guilty this week to four counts of making death threats against people connected with Huntingdon Life Sciences and 17 counts related to the distribution and possession of child pornography which was found on Moaby’s computer after British police effected a search warrant of his residence.
Moaby had sent death threats to executives at the Bank of New York and the AIM Fund Management, both of which have been targeted by Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty for their connections with Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Detective Constable Tim Duffin told The Times of London,
Some of these e-mails were quite terrifying. They contained almost all the profanities you could think of and threats of sexual assault.
Moaby sent them saying he was representing SHAC, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. The threats were very time specific and would say things along the line of ‘you will die this week.’
The targets of these threats lived in the United States and they informed the FBI who in turn passed along information about the threats to Scotland Yard which arrested Moaby on June 21, 2001. Moaby is scheduled to be sentenced on July 22.
Source:
Animal rights activist hoarded child porn. The Times (London), June 18, 2002.