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Mel Broughton was born on 5 July, 1960 in United Kingdom, is a British landscape gardener. Discover Mel Broughton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

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1960

Mel Brown (born Mel Broughton; 5 July 1960) is a British landscape gardener and animal rights activist who rose to public prominence due to a planned bombing campaign aimed at preventing the construction of a new research laboratory at Oxford University.

1971

Rocky had been in the pool, mostly alone, for 17 years, after being captured off the coast of Florida in 1971.

Broughton and the others intended to move the dolphin, who weighed 650 lbs, 200 yards from the pool to the sea, using a ladder, a net, a home-made dolphin stretcher, and a hired Mini Metro.

On the night of the action, they realised the logistics of the operation were beyond them, and decided to abandon their plans, but were arrested when the police found them with the dolphin stretcher in the back of the car.

Broughton, Horne, Jim O'Donnell, and Jim Buckner were fined £500, while Broughton and Horne were also given six-month suspended sentences.

The management of Marineland eventually agreed to give Rocky to campaigners in response to Broughton and others picketing the facility.

1988

Broughton was first arrested in 1988, when he and three other activists, including Barry Horne – who died in 2001 during an animal-rights hunger strike – tried to remove Rocky, a bottlenose dolphin, from a small concrete pool inside Marineland, in Morecambe, Lancashire.

1991

In 1991, Rocky was transferred to a lagoon reserve in the Turks and Caicos Islands, then released.

Peter Hughes of the University of Sunderland cites the campaign as an example of how promoting an animal rights perspective created a paradigm shift toward seeing dolphins as individuals, as a result of which, he wrote, there are now no captive dolphins in the UK.

1998

Broughton was sentenced to four years in 1998 after police found a firebomb in his car.

1999

Broughton was first jailed in 1999 after police found a bomb in the boot of his car.

He was convicted of conspiracy to cause an explosion likely to endanger life.

2002

He was sentenced to four years, and released in June 2002 after serving two years and eight months.

Broughton told The Independent on Sunday that he took the chance to educate himself while in prison, studying philosophy and social sciences with the Open University.

"I found a lot of sympathy inside," he told the newspaper, "but a lot of the general prisoners found it very difficult to understand that I was inside for something I'd done for no personal gain."

2003

In July 2003, Broughton and Robert Cogswell set up a campaign to halt construction of a new non-human primate research facility at Cambridge University, the plans for which suggested it would be Europe's largest primate vivisection centre.

2004

He was the co-founder in 2004, with Robert Cogswell, of SPEAK, The Voice for the Animals, a campaign to stop animal testing in Britain, which is focused on opposition to a new animal laboratory at Oxford University.

His mother, 70 years old at the time, was injured in September 2004 when a construction worker at Oxford University threw a white burning substance at her during an animal rights demonstration.

Broughton has been involved in animal rights for over 30 years.

He worked on Operation Osprey in Scotland when he was 15, living in a tent to guard osprey nests.

He later worked in animal sanctuaries, and campaigned against zoos, circuses, factory farming, and live animal exports.

He lives in Northampton with Bella, a rescue dog, devoting most of his time to SPEAK.

He told The Independent on Sunday:

"This was always my life, but now it takes up so much of my life that it's very difficult. In fact survival is very, very hard. My flat's nothing special – two rooms – and I live as frugally as I possibly can to make sure I can campaign. I'm not trying to make myself out to be a martyr because this is my choice."

The Stop Primate Experiments at Cambridge (SPEAC) campaign succeeded in persuading the university to abandon its plans in January 2004.

Shortly thereafter, SPEAC learned that Oxford University planned to build a new animal research laboratory, including a non-human primate lab, in the university's science area.

The activists said that talks between Oxford and Cambridge had resulted in Oxford agreeing to conduct the brain experiments that were lost with the abandonment of Cambridge's plans.

2007

He was arrested again and remanded in custody in December 2007 after the Animal Liberation Front planted incendiary devices in Oxford University colleges.

A jury cleared him of possessing explosive substances, but failed to reach a verdict on other charges.

In connection with his role in the SPEAK campaign, Broughton was charged in December 2007 with conspiracy to blackmail and possession of incendiary devices after fire broke out inside a sports pavilion belonging to Queen's College, Oxford in November 2006, and two petrol bombs were found inside the university's Templeton College in February 2007.

The Animal Liberation Front claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Police arrested Broughton after finding a university employee's security pass and a notebook containing a list of targets for "direct action" under a carpet, and sparklers and a battery connector in an unused water tank at his house.

2008

SPEAC became SPEAK, The Voice for the Animals, relaunching itself as a campaign to halt all animal testing in the UK, with its second target the new Oxford lab, which opened in November 2008.

2009

Following his retrial in 2009 he was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to commit arson.

2010

However, in March 2010 Mel Broughton had his conviction overturned, arguing that the DNA evidence in the case had been unreliable.

He was later granted bail with "stringent conditions" and was re-tried in June/July 2010.

On 13 July 2010 Broughton was once again found guilty and returned to prison to complete the balance of his sentence.

2020

On his release, he continued his campaigns, and in September 2020 was seriously injured when trampled by a horse while protesting a Northamptonshire hunt.

Broughton's father is a former painter and decorator and his mother, Pauline, a care assistant in an old people's home.

Both are committed animal rights advocates who work alongside Broughton on the SPEAK campaign.