Jailed hunt saboteur branded a ‘danger to the public’

A hunt saboteur has been branded a “danger to the public” by a judge as he was jailed.

Paul Allman, 48, was part of a “militia” dressed in black who confronted the Wynnstay Hunt in Cuddington, Cheshire, before he struck two supporters, knocking one to the floor.

When he appeared in the dock on Friday, the animal rights activist already had a suspended sentence hanging over him for his involvement in a separate attack on a 15-year-old girl and two men, aged 61 and 52, as they watched the Cottesmore Hunt in Oakham, Leicestershire.

Sentencing him to 20 weeks in custody, district judge John McGarva said that Allman was a “danger to the public” and “had a history of violent offending”.