At least two of the seven linked letter bombs posted in the last few weeks contained the names of animal rights activists, it has been disclosed.
The name of a second campaigner was scrawled on the back of one of the Jiffy bag-style envelopes sent to forensic science laboratories last month.
It was already known that one of those three devices featured the name of prominent animal rights extremist Barry Horne. Horne died in 2001 while serving an 18-year jail sentence for a firebombing campaign. Another activist, who is alive, was named on the back of a different package, Thames Valley Police confirmed.
They were all posted on January 18 to forensic laboratories in the Oxfordshire and West Midlands area. One was involved in paternity testing, another was the Government-owned Forensic Science Service headquarters in Birmingham.
The name of the second activist is not being released by police. It appears to strengthen the theory that animal… Read the full story