In early August, Huntingdon Life Sciences confirmed that an anonymous threat had been made to kidnap one of its managers.
The threat was made sometime in July when an unknown person made a call to a Crimestoppers lie in the UK apparently threatening that an HLS manager and his family may be subject to a kidnapping plot.
An HLS spokesman told EDP24 that the threat was investigated but the caller remained unknown. The spokesman downplayed the risk saying,
We get all sorts of threats all the time, it’s on-going. Many of the threats are fairly broad, but when you receive them personally you take notice.
Source:
Animal-testing lab plays down threat. Cat Bartman, EDP24, August 6, 2003.