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Greg Avery (born 1963), also known as Greg Jennings and Greg Harrison,^[1] is a British animal rights activist and co-founder of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), an international campaign to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), a controversial animal-testing company with bases in Huntingdon, England, and New Jersey in the United States.

Contents 1 Early life 2 SHAC campaign 3 Notes 4 References

Avery trained as a tailor,^[2] but joined the animal rights movement at the age of 15, and has devoted himself to it full-time ever since.^[3] He has been one of the founding members of several animal rights groups, including the Northern Animal Liberation League, the Consort beagle campaign, Save the Hillgrove Cats, and most recently Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC). He is also a vocal supporter of the SPEAK campaign, which aims to stop the construction by Oxford University of a new animal testing laboratory on South Parks Road, Oxford.

Avery started SHAC in November 1999 with his first wife, Heather James, now Heather Nicholson, after video footage shot covertly inside HLS by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was aired on British television.^[4] Footage shot in the UK showed HLS staff shouting at, shaking, punching, and laughing at the animals.^[5] footage shot later in the U.S. appears to show a live and possibly conscious monkey being dissected. ^[6]

In 1996, Avery spent 18 months on remand after police found incendiary devices in the house where he was staying with another activist. He was later acquitted. He was sentenced in 1998 to six months for affray, and 14 days later that year for offences under the Public Order Act. In 2002, Avery and James and a third activist, Natasha Constance Dellemagne (now Natasha Avery) were jailed for 12 months, six suspended, for conspiracy to incite a public nuisance.

In the spring of 2002, Dellemagne and Avery became a couple and later married. As of 2004, the couple were living, together with Heather James, in a cottage provided by a wealthy supporter, Virginia Jane Steele. ^{[7] [8]}

In July 2006, Natasha Avery and Heather James/Nicholson were sentenced to 16 months in jail, along with 19-year old Daniel Wadham, who was sentenced to 12 months in detention, for an attack on a car displaying a Countryside Alliance sticker. The trio were convicted of verbally abusing and spitting on the occupants, a 75-year-old woman, a woman in her 40s, and a 21-year old man. ^[9]

• Vaughan, Claudette. "SHAC Interviewed: Greg Avery Speaks Out", Abolitionist.Online, undated, retrieved February 26, 2006