A big apology due to lack of internet I haven't been able to update the profile however!
Jul 12, 2007
Trish Portwine was recently released on Home Detention Curfew.
I recently recieved a message " I've spent the afternoon with trish, she still has her leg bangle on & can't go out after 7pm but she's glad to be home with her family.
We talked about shac & the wonderful support she got from all the members.
I just wanted to let you know that her spirit is good & her fight not deminished."
PLEASE CONTINUE TO SHOW ONGOING SUPPORT VIA ADDING AND SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT MARK AND SUE.
Urgent Help needed
As you are aware Mark and Sue left kids behind when they were locked up. The kids are in urgent need of a little financial support at the momentso any donations however small would be greatly appreciated. Cheques or P.O.s or paid directly into a c/o account via messaging me here can beobtained to pay and monies into. We need to pull together and help our absent friends in whatever way we can they have lost more support now thatGreg and Natasha have been locked up too. Thanks all
Today (06.03.07) Mark Taylor, Suzanne Taylor and Teresa Portwine were all sentenced today under the new Serious Organised Crime Police Act (SOCAP) Section 145.
Mark Taylor: 4 Years
Suzanne Taylor: 2 1/2 Years
Teresa Portwine: 15 Months
FACT: Mark, Suzanne and Teresa never attacked anyone, they didn't cause £1 of damage, they didn't break into any premises yet Judge Goldring sentenced them to these disgusting sentences. He sentenced both Mark and suzanne knowing full well that it would leave both their children aged 15 and 17 to fend for themselves. As a movement we will be there for all 3 prisoners and Mark and Suzanne's daughters no matter what.
Justice Goldring must be the biggest recruiting sergeant yet for the Animal Liberation Front as Joseph Harris who planned and executed nightime raids on companies associated with Huntingdon Life Sciences causing £25,000 worth of damage was only sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment under the same legislation. Bizarre or what?
History shows us that draconian unjust sentences only serve to make activists worldwide more angry. What they are trying to stop is a movement that has carried out more demos and actions against Huntingdon Life Sciences in the last 2 months than at any time in its history.
The more effective we are, the more savage their response will be, so what shall we do? It is your duty to step up actions (and of course we mean legal ones) to close Huntingdon Life Sciences for the animals dying inside Huntingdon right now and for our imprisoned comrades in the UK and abroad. It only EVER finishes when those gates of Huntingdon close once and for all. We will not fail them.
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Please write to all 3 and show your support :
NEW ADDRESS FOR PRISONER MARK TAYLOR -
HMP YOI Onley, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV23 8AP.
(from SUZANNE TAYLOR - TM7154)
Dear myspace readers
Many thanks to those of you who have already written to us. Here is an update that was requested from us.
So as you all probably know my husband recieved 4 years for our so called crime and i recieved 2.5 years.
We are all appealing. They send a mother and father both to prison leaving two beautiful daughters, [a 15
year old and a 17 year old] to get on with things for themselves. So much for compassion!
I think the goverment need to find thier compassion to all as they have put me and my husband here and not a care
in the world for keeping families together. Looking into animal welfare would be a good place to start,
but money is all the goverment is interested in and thats why i shall do my time with my head held high.
Please keep your fingers crossed four our success with our appeals.
For the animals first and foremost.
Love Sue x
(from TRISH PORTWINE - TM7153)
Dear myspace readers
We finally got a column somewhere... had to come to prison to get it though!
Well good people, prison is prison. Cant be to easy in here on us as the real cons would be having too
good a time too!
As far as our case goes it was a political nightmare... trying to stand against the goverment and the
CPS, they had no intention no matter how small our crime was to blow it into a crime that has made history
as we are the first to be convicted due to demonstrations under the new 145 & 146 sections. Its a shambles
and they knew it was projected as a set up because they wanted to hit the paper with a success.
Anyway my heart is strong and my spirit will not be broken!
Thank you to anyone who has already written to us.
Love and respect for the animals always.
Trish x
(from MARK TAYLOR)
To all of my friends on myspace
Many thanks to all of you for your continued support. The mail here is very snail like due to the nature
of this prison, so it will often take me a week plus before i recieve a letter. I promise i will write a reply
to everyone who has written to me, but as you are aware i am not allowed SAE's or stamps or anything else here
other than postal orders or cheques. This enables me to buy my writing paper/envelopes and stamps and phonecards
to remain in contact with those closest to me first, like my daughters and my closest friends.
I am extremely grateful for those of you who have sent me in postal orders to enable me to do so and as i said
i will reply to everyone in due course. On the subject of letters some of you have not left an address for me to
write back to, so obviously although i can understand why, i am of course unable to reply. The same applies to
P.O. Box addresses. Im afraid i am unable to reply to you, the prison will not permit me to.
As i write this the appeal has been presented, though in light of the outcome of the Newchurch lots appeal recently
i am not overly optimistic. I will of course keep you all posted as and when we know something.
Love and liberation to all
Mark x
If you would like to help, pls put us up in your top friends and tell others about this support space.
Please do everything you can to raise awareness that SOCAP destroys the right to protest.
