Location: Cheshire
Affiliations: Roaming Sabs (formerly)
Susan Sutton-Lloyd is a reformed sab who, having reportedly fallen out with other members of the anti-hunt fraternity, renounced her position as a leading light in the Roaming Sabs group, who have since disbanded.
In a parting shot at her erstwhile colleagues, Sutton-Lloyd told Behind The Masks in an email, “I am no longer a Sab nor do I wish to be part of their cult”.
On 20 January 2024, Sutton-Lloyd was arrested by North Wales Police for suspected sexual assault against a male hunt supporter. According to a subject access request shared by Sutton-Lloyd to her private Facebook group 'The Truth', the case against the sab was dropped due to a lack of evidence. Nevertheless, the police reserve the right to rearrest Sutton-Lloyd should further evidence emerge.
Sutton-Lloyd has repeatedly protested her innocence, claiming that she was framed by fellow hunt saboteurs and that the real perpetrator is Cara Langford-Watts: an autism, anxiety, and ADHD coach from Oxford affiliated with the North Wales Hunt Saboteurs.
One video posted to 'The Truth' purports to show the alleged assault. Sutton-Lloyd has on numerous occasions posted stills from the footage to protest her innocence, claiming that it is Langford-Watts in the video.
Thankfully Sutton-Lloyd didn’t give up the day job, teaching pilates through her business Athletic Pilates UK. A number of businesses outsource Susan’s pilates-teaching including Harris & Ross physiotherapy clinic, Total Fitness health clubs, David Lloyd health clubs, The Tytherington Club, Virgin Active, and Macclesfield College.
In her free time, Sutton-Lloyd paints and exhibits portraits of her cat, Domino.
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Sutton-Lloyd's arrest for alleged assault in January 2024 drove a rift through the hunt saboteur community, with Sutton-Lloyd repeatedly accusing other sabs of framing her and covering up evidence.
In November 2024, Sutton-Lloyd started posting to pro-hunt Facebook groups, including ‘Herefordshire Hunt Sabs - Who Are They Really’ posing as an anonymous user and attempting to exonerate herself for the assault and blame other sabs.
In one such post, Sutton-Lloyd posted an image of a WhatsApp message, claiming that she was being threatened by fellow hunt saboteurs.
“If Susan doesn’t immediately remove her wild accusations off pro hunt pages she will be in more trouble that [sic] her wildest dreams,” the message read.
Sharing the image to Facebook, Sutton- Lloyd claimed her abuser was “the daughter of a gypsy” - a term that is considered offensive and outdated by the majority of Roma and traveller communities in Britain.
Other users on the Herefordshire Hunt Sabs group have alleged that the WhatsApp message was bogus and that Sutton-Lloyd is trying to create distance between herself and other hunt saboteurs in order to protest her innocence.
At around the same time, Sutton-Lloyd created a private Facebook group called ‘The Truth’ in which she further attempted to exonerate herself of the assault in North Wales.
As far back as September she updated her Facebook bio to read “I WILL ONLY SUPPORT ANIMAL ACTIVISM WHEN THE ABUSE FROM HUMANS WITHIN ANIMAL ACTIVISM STOPS”. In October, Sutton Lloyd changed her Facebook profile picture to a graphic which read ‘Stop Blaming Victims’.
Nevertheless, online evidence shows that Sutton-Lloyd was still involved in activism around this time, joining a so-called ‘Weekend of Action’ protest against the breeding of beagles for medical testing at MBR Acres in Cambridgeshire. Employees at the facility have previously described these protests as “terrifying” and applied for a court injunction against the activists.
Since November, Hunts across Cheshire and North Wales have confirmed that they haven’t seen Sutton-Lloyd about. Previously her group, the Roaming Sabs, had regularly collaborated with the infamous Stockport Monitors. In a post to their Facebook page in January 2024, the Roaming Sabs expressed “big love” to the Stockport Monitors with an image that shows Sutton-Lloyd stood near a masked man with the same build and puffer jacket as Stockport leader Paul Allman.
Allman, who received a criminal behaviour order in December 2023 barring him from attending hunts, has twice been convicted of assault against hunt supporters, including a 15-year-old girl in 2022.
