13 Facts About Robin Webb

Robin Webb was born on c 1945 and is an English animal rights activist.

Robin Webb is a former member of the ruling council of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and former director of Animal Aid.

Since October 1991, Robin Webb has run the British Animal Liberation Press Office, which releases material to the media on behalf of activists operating as the ALF, the Animal Rights Militia, and the Justice Department.

Robin Webb has been involved in animal rights advocacy since the 1980s.

Robin Webb told No Compromise that his interest began when he started a new job at an electronics company located next to a slaughterhouse.

Robin Webb says he was chosen because he had a respectable image.

Toward the end of the hunger strike, when it appeared that Horne might die, the Animal Rights Militia, an extremist animal-rights group, issued a statement through Robin Webb, threatening to assassinate six unnamed and four named individuals should Horne die.

The production team had secretly filmed Robin Webb holding meetings with Hall, who told Robin Webb he wanted to arrange a bombing.

The footage had been shot before the Animal Rights Militia had issued its threat against the scientists, and there was no suggestion that Robin Webb was himself engaged in violent action.

Robin Webb complained that the Dispatches programme had been selectively edited and his own quotes shown out of context.

Robin Webb himself has appeared to link the ALF and the Animal Rights Militia, together with a third animal-rights group known for violence, the Justice Department.

Robin Webb has said that children of animal researchers are legitimate targets of protest.

Robin Webb had argued that, as a journalist, the injunction would impinge upon his freedom of speech; the court ruled that Robin Webb is not a journalist, but a propagandist.