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Wye castrator sentenced

Jul 31 2001 18:44

Charlie Brown

Community service for animal rights fanatic who stole the Wye College Beagles.

This was the official picture released by Animal Liberation Front after it claimed responsibility for stealing the Beagles.

Several months on, one of the activists who raided the Wye College Beagles Hunt kennels has been sentenced.

Julian Greensides, 35, was arrested back in February but it was not until last week that he was brought into court. Mr Greevisides pleaded guilty to stealing "Sexton", the stud beagle (which was worth £2000). He was sentenced to 60 hours' community service.

Sexton had been the Hunt's prize-winning Beagle and was stolen along with 46 other dogs by the Animal Liberation Front. The other dogs have yet to be recovered, but Sexton was found castrated.

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1. Sam

Jul 31 2001 19:13

A "Stud" beagle???

you gotta be kidding me right?

2. Andy Heeps

Jul 31 2001 19:17

Don't worry Sam, stud that you are, theywon't come after you!!!

3. David Rolls

Aug 01 2001 15:37

So, this is where the studs hang out where there is nothing better to do during the summer.

Jesus guys, will you just leave the Union alone for two minutes!

4. Mustafa Arif

Aug 02 2001 09:50

Obviously not, as you have demonstrated yourself :-)

5. Rob

Aug 02 2001 15:58

How can a so called animal lover castrate anything. Is there any way a court can pass a sentence of castration on this protester. That would certainly act as a deterent.

6. Mustafa Arif

Aug 02 2001 18:41

I for one am in favour of castrating convicted sex offenders. It would be much more effective than prison or community service.

7. Jason McKee

Aug 08 2001 15:11

Not a bad point, but castration is irreversible (what if they are found innocent) and rather barbaric (so unlikely to gain the support needed).

What about chemical treatment? Would modern medical technology allow (removable) implants that remove an implantee's sex drive? While we're at what about one that dampens aggression? They could detec hormones like testerone and release inhibitors. Is this feasible?

8. Andrew

Feb 05 2005 23:43

Good job friend, keep the ALF going.

I don't belive the casteratation was nessecary, but we don't know all the details...

9. Tom E

Feb 06 2005 02:45

Nice idea about the implants, but unfortunately, that would encounter similar (although less blatant) problems as imposing castration. One could argue that an anti-aggression or anti-sex-drive implant would remove free will from the equation (a-la "A Clockwork Orange").

The current penal system is based on the idea of rehabilitation where possible. If you had a reversible implant that stopped or reduced the likelihood of you offending, whats to stop you repeating the crime once your sentence is up and the implant is removed? While a fitting punishment, reversibly removing someone's sex drive may not encourage reform as much as suffering the indignities of a prison sentence.

Now that I've made a "serious point", I'd like to offer my confusion at why an organisation concerned with liberating animals would castrate one. Maybe next we should start controlled extermination of Cows because they cause air pollution.

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