Animal rights activist convicted over McDonald’s fake blood protest

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>An animal rights activist who smeared fake blood over a McDonald’s restaurant while wearing a pig mask has been convicted of criminal damage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Up to 20 protesters &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;overwhelmed” security at the fast food chain’s outlet in Brighton on May 18&comma; holding signs and chanting through a megaphone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Actress Dylan Roffey&comma; who was pictured covered in the fake blood and wearing a pig mask&comma; claimed in court on Thursday that her actions were legal because she was trying to save animals from slaughter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 24-year-old said the red substance was a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;completely edible” mixture of flour and food dye&comma; designed to highlight the plight of what she called animals being &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;murdered”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;139917" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-139917" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-139917" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;09&sol;C44BA922-EC0F-4564-B4E9-8EF9531DD062&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"829" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-139917" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Dylan Roffey during a protest outside Brighton Magistrates Court<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; a judge at Brighton Magistates’ Court rejected her defence and found her guilty of criminal damage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Roffey&comma; of Terminus Road in Brighton&comma; appeared in court in a t-shirt with the words &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;meat the victims” written on it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She was cleared of obstructing a police officer&comma; with District Judge Amanda Kelly saying she was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;not sure” the PC’s force was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;reasonable”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>McDonald’s assistant manager Robert Frost&comma; who was in charge of the restaurant on the night&comma; told the court that between 10 and 20 protesters had arrived at about 7&period;30pm&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They overwhelmed security&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;One of them had a loudspeaker chanting slogans about how there is animals being killed and they began throwing red paint&comma; to show blood&comma; across the premises&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Some of the customers were quite upset&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;139919" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-139919" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-139919" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;09&sol;8B835170-B2E3-4AF1-8B98-10EF8A502F46&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"338" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-139919" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Roffey pictured in the restaurant during her protest<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Mr Frost told the court that he called the police and many of the protesters started to leave&comma; but one woman refused&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said he saw officers having to pull her up and take her outside&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Earlier&comma; Roffey’s solicitor Meredoc McMinn sought to have the resisting a police officer charge dismissed on the basis of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;unreasonable force” but Judge Kelly declined to do so and the case continued&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Roffey told the court the purpose of the protest was to highlight the &OpenCurlyQuote;murder’ of animals by McDonald’s and other companies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She said of her motivation&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;To raise awareness of what McDonald’s is doing to animals and to save the lives of animals by being there and stopping the sale of their bodies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;By raising awareness through what we were saying&comma; changing people’s minds and secondly every sale that they do not make results in less animals being murdered&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She said the red substance – meant to symbolise &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the blood of animals being shed” – was made from food dye&comma; flour and water and was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;completely edible”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr McMinn argued that Roffey &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;made a point of spreading &lpar;the fake blood&rpar; on surfaces that would normally have been cleaned”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;139918" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-139918" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-139918" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;09&sol;AE617F83-3D01-4EA2-B033-695F412F538F&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"439" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-139918" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Supporters set off smoke flares outside the court<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>In sentencing Roffey&comma; Judge Kelly said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Not withstanding the fact that the mixture was flour&comma; water and food dye… the damage need not be permanent in order to be criminal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am absolutely sure that Miss Roffey intended that damage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I find that Miss Roffey’s purposes was to raise awareness and attract publicity for her cause but that these purposes are too far removed from providing the animals’ immediate protection&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads3--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I have a lot of respect for a young woman with strong principles which you clearly do but this is not the way to go about it&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The judge also noted that customers who are &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;legally entitled to go to McDonald’s for their Friday night dinner” had to leave because of the process&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ad-container"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Roffey – who last week was sentenced to 150 hours of unpaid work for an unrelated assault – had another 60 hours of unpaid work added to her sentence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She must also pay £50 compensation to McDonald’s&comma; 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