Affiliations: Northants Hunt Sabs, Hertfordshire Hunt Sabs, Free the MBR Beagles, Camp Beagle, Animal Rising
Location: Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
Bernadette Green is a Bedfordshire-based sab and NHS nurse who spends her time disrupting legal activities in the name of animal rights activism.
Sources tell us Green is a regular sab with Northants Hunt Sabs and Hertfordshire Hunt Sabs – but her activism doesn’t end there. She has also been associated with the protest groups Free the MBR Beagles, Camp Beagle, and Animal Rising.
Grand National arrest
Green was charged by the Merseyside Police on 10 July 2024 with “intentionally/recklessly causing a public nuisance” while protesting at the Grand National in 2023. The protest, organised by animal rights group Animal Rising, delayed the start of the horse race by 15 minutes.
The protesters gained entry to the course and tried to scale a perimeter fence and glue themselves to one of Aintree’s obstacles. The police arrested over 100 people and have charged 20, including Green. She is due to appear at Sefton Magistrate’s Court in August.
Police arresting protesters
Interestingly, Animal Rising announced prior to 2024’s Grand National that it would not be targeting the event again, and that the group is indefinitely suspending its campaign of direct action against racing.
By way of an explanation, a spokesperson for the group said public sentiment towards racing had changed and they “don’t want racing to be part of the fabric of British culture going forward”. Perhaps a more likely reason for their no-show was the fact that 118 protesters were arrested last year and didn’t fancy it again...
Supports convicted criminals
Green’s protesting activities means she interacts with a questionable crowd of characters, including convicted criminals Mel Broughton and Sam Morley.
Broughton, a long-time sab and activist, was imprisoned for a decade for his role in the SPEAK campaign in Oxford University against the construction of an animal testing laboratory. He had placed firebomb devices under a portable cabin at Templeton College and a cricket pavilion at Queen’s College, Oxford. The explosion at the pavilion caused damage valued at £14,000, but the other bombs failed to detonate.
Upon his release from prison Broughton returned to protesting and sabbing. Green set up a GoFundMe to raise donations for him after he was injured while sabbing in 2020, describing him as an “honest, kind and committed friend”. This is the same man who was jailed in 2010 for conspiracy to commit arson.
Broughton established a long-term protest outside MBR Acres in Cambridgeshire. Green was listed alongside Broughton in an injunction against them in November 2021.
Also listed in the MBR Acres injunction of 2021 is Sam Morley. In August 2023 Morley was convicted of aggravated trespass at Sandon Shot near Stafford, for which he and one other were fined £3,500 with a conditional discharge of two years.