Jill Phipps

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name = Jill Phipps


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birth_date = birth date|1964|1|15|df=y
birth_place = England.
death_date = death date and age|1995|2|1|1964|1|15|df=y
death_place = Baginton, Warwickshire, England.
death_cause = Physical trauma
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known_for = Animal rights activist
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website = [http://www.jillphipps.org.uk/ www.jillphipps.org.uk]

Jill Phipps (15 January, 1964 — 1 February, 1995) was a British animal rights activist. She lived in Coventry, England.

On 1 February 1995, Phipps was crushed to death under the wheels of a lorry carrying live baby veal calves into Coventry Airport in Baginton, England, to be flown to Amsterdam for distribution across Europe. 10 of the 33 protesters present had broken through police lines and were trying to bring the lorry to a halt by sitting in the road or chaining themselves to it. Phipps was crushed beneath the lorry's wheels and her fatal injuries included a broken spine. [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/animalrights/story/0,11917,1406502,00.html Woman who died in veal protest becomes martyr of wider cause] , by Mark Honigsbaum, The Guardian, 5 February, 2005] Phipps' brother Zab commented,

"Jill was crushed and died on the way to hospital. Our mother, Nancy, was with her. The lorry driver has not been charged, not even with driving without due care and attention". [ [http://www.vivisection.info/netcu_watch/jill_phipps.htm Jill Phipps is crushed to death under export lorry] , "NETCU Watch", website visited 25 January 2007]

The Crown Prosecution Service decided there was not enough evidence to bring charges against the driver, Stephen Yates. Phipps' family believe that the police were to blame for her death, because the police appeared determined to keep the convoy of lorries moving despite the protest. [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/animalrights/story/0,11917,1406502,00.html Woman who died in veal protest becomes martyr of wider cause] , Mark Honigsbaum, The Guardian, 5 February 2005]

Veal calf exports from Coventry Airport ended months later, when the aviation firm belonging to the pilot responsible for the veal flights, Christopher Barrett-Jolley, went bankrupt following accusations of running guns from Slovakia to Sudan in breach of EU rules. In 2006 he was charged with smuggling 271 kg of cocaine from Jamaica into Southend airport. [ [http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/travel/page.cfm?objectid=12431230&method=full&siteid=50002#story_continue Final chapter in life and times of notorious pilot] , John Revill, Birmingham Post, 6 December 2006.]

The continuing level of protest was such that several local councils and a harbour board banned live exports from their localities. [Catherine Barnard and Ivan Hare. The Right to Protest and the Right to Export: Police Discretion and the Free Movement of Goods, "The Modern Law Review", Vol. 60, No. 3 (May 1997)] All live exports of calves later stopped due to fears of BSE infection. In 2006 this ban was lifted, but Coventry Airport pledged that it would refuse requests to fly veal calves. [ [http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_method=full&objectid=16793304&siteid=50003-name_page.html#story_continue No veal flights from Coventry] , Fiona Scott, Coventry Telegraph, 9 March 2006]

"Jill's Film", with footage of Phipps, the Coventry live export campaign, the funeral, and interviews with Phipps' family was produced and shown for the first time at the "Jill's Day" 2005 event in Coventry. [ [http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=9062786490002108922&hl=en-GB Jill's Film] , Google Video as at 29 January 2005] [ [http://www.jillphipps.org.uk/jillsFilm.htm Jill Phipps :: Memorial Website] , visited 25 January 2007] Memorial events are held by grassroots animal rights groups around 1 February each year. [ [http://www.veggies.org.uk/calendar Veggies Animal Rights calendar] , "Veggies".]

References

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_ynvPtCd2g Jill's Film online]

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