Demo Report – Wednesday 23 April

It has been reported in the local press that Oxford University and Thames Valley Police are both contributing towards the £120,000 a year cost of community support officers dedicated to patrolling university premises. This is an alarming development because if Oxford University is indeed paying their wages, then Thames Valley Police really are nothing more than a private police force working for, and in the pockets of the university - hardly impartial upholders of the law.

However it will take more than a disreputable institution like Oxford University, who seem to think that torturing animals to death is a decent pass time, to put SPEAK supporters off from voicing their disgust at these atrocities. So once again, those opposed to animal abuse gathered at the edge of the exclusion zone, to let both pedestrians and those in cars know exactly what dirty, cruel secrets this university is hiding behind the doors of its laboratories. Never again will Oxford University have the luxury of people’s ignorance to let them get away with brutalizing animals.