It is satisfying to hear that Julia Didrikson from Poole, Dorset has been sentenced to 5 months in prison for sending intimidating and threatening hate mail to employees of Huntingdon Life Sciences. Clearly these threats, described as vicious by the police, were very distressing for those involved. Didrikson used SHAC (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty) and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) websites and her own research to conduct an email hate campaign. She is the first person in the UK to be convicted under a section in the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 which deals with intimidation of persons connected with an animal research organisation. People who send threatening letters to individuals and their families are not above the law.