Jill Phipps

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Jill Phipps (January 15, 1964 – February 1, 1995) was a British animal rights activist.

On 1 February 1995, Phipps was crushed to death under the wheels of an export truck carrying live baby veal calves into Coventry Airport in Baginton, England, to be flown to Amsterdam for distribution across Europe.

Ten of the 33 protesters present had broken through police lines and were trying to bring the lorry to a halt by sitting in the road or chaining themselves to it. Phipps was crushed beneath the lorry's wheels. Her spine was broken in two and she died instantly. [1]

The Crown Prosecution Service decided there was not enough evidence to bring charges against the driver, Stephen Yates. Phipps's family believes the police were to blame for her death, because they appeared determined to keep the convoy of lorries moving despite the protest. [2]

The exports from Baginton ended months later, when the aviation firm belonging to the pilot responsible for the veal flights, Christopher Barrett-Jolley, went bankrupt.

[edit] References

• "Woman who died in veal protest becomes martyr of wider cause" by Mark Honigsbaum, The Guardian, February 5, 2005