This Is Hertfordshire reported that on September 12 a seventeen year old animal rights activist plead guilty to nine charges related to throwing tea and tea bags at medical researchers as they drove past the National Institute for Medical Research.

According to This is Hertfordshire, the young woman has regularly stood outside the NIMR building for the pat two years as part of an ongoing protest against animal research.

On August 5 she was arrested for throwing tea at a researcher who was riding by on a bicycle and threw a tea bag onto the windshield of a car being driven by another researcher. She was arrested and charged with criminal damage, assault, interfering with motor vehicles, aggravated trespass and harassment, and causing alarm and distress.

The young woman received a nine month probation period, has to write letters of apology to the cyclist and driver, and must pay 30 pound compensation to the cyclist as well as court costs.

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Animal rights activist, 17, brews up trouble. Sophie Kummer, This Is Hertfordshire, September 16, 2003.