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A breaking news story: after three successive failures to convict Animal Rising’s Grand National disruptors, the Crown Prosecution Service has today dropped a fourth upcoming Crown Court case, indicating a further two trials are also now likely to be dropped due to the low likelihood of a conviction. Three juries have now refused to convict Grand National protestors who chose to be tried at the Crown Court for public nuisance, after taking action to protect horses’ lives at the world’s most...

A jury took just 51 minutes to unanimously declare five Animal Rising campaigners who ran onto the tracks of the 2023 Grand National not guilty of public nuisance  at Liverpool Crown Court today (13/11/25). This was the third of a series of five Grand National trials; after this third consecutive failure to convict, the CPS will now review whether the remaining trials will go to court with the next one currently due to start on 1/12/25. Not Guilty: Robert Gordon, Daniel Kidby, Michelle...

Four Animal Rising campaigners accused of public nuisance had their trial end with a hung jury last week (21/10/25) at Liverpool Crown Court. The charges were for their actions at the 2023 Grand National, which delayed the race and caused a media frenzy. [1] Today, (28/10/25) a retrial was scheduled for 30/11/26. In September, a group of six Grand National protestors were found not guilty of the same charge. [2] Last month (24/9/25), a group of six were found not guilty of the same charge by...