Affiliations: North East Hunt Monitors, Teeside Against Blood Sports (TABS), Geordie Hunt Sabs.
Location: Sunderland
Simon Taylor is a veteran sab and animal activist. Most recently, he became a keen member of the North East’s newest masked gang of extremists, Teeside Against Blood Sports (TABS).
In typical saboteur fashion, this new sab group relies upon donations from the well-meaning public, raising money through 'benefit gigs’:
Before taking up sabbing with TABS, Taylor was a long-standing member of the North East Hunt Monitors, where he likely came across blowhard activists like John Harwood, who recently appeared in an ITV news feature but failed to reveal his true identity.
Interestingly, Mr Harwood seems to have cleaned up his act on Facebook since BTM’s exposé, removing his profile. Perhaps he was embarrassed that people had finally discovered that what he really enjoys doing is running around on private land in tight-fitting paramilitary gear.
Sources have informed Behind The Masks that Taylor currently works at Sunderland City Council. We wonder whether his bosses know that he spends his taxpayer-funded salary on marauding the countryside with natty little flags.
In November 2024, a follower from the Braes of Derwent hunt shared footage of a member of the Geordie Hunt Sabs believed to be Taylor. The footage shows a sab playing an audio recording of hounds in cry near a main road, running a serious risk of the real hounds being led out of the field and into oncoming traffic.
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