She is dismayed at being found guilty of stealing three lambs from King Charles after climbing into a field on his Sandringham estate in Norfolk back in 2023.
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She → dismay → 2023
'I thought I had a 50-50 chance but it still came as a surprise,' she says of the recent court verdict following her three-day trial, but what did she expect?
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Rose was feeling sheepish because she did not believe she had broken the law in the first place.
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I voluntarily gave myself up to the police afterwards,' she says.
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After bonding with the royal lambs – whom she christened Sunny, Sammy and Sooty – Rose and her two accomplices piled the animals into the back of a van, whereupon they were driven to an undisclosed animal sanctuary.
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Here they were given the chance of 'a long and happy life' instead of their predestined fate of being taken to slaughter at about five months old.
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'I saved their lives.
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They are in a secret place now, safe from slaughter, free to live until they grow old.
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I have no regrets.
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And I think King Charles would approve of what I did because he is an environmentalist, too.'
Can that possibly be true?
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that → think → what
The King is also a committed sheep farmer, one who perhaps does not take too kindly to intruders and livestock rustlers messing about with his 3,000-strong flock of highly prized, organic Aberfield sheep just to make a point about animal rights.
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At Norwich Crown Court last month, the jury took the same robust view.
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After nearly four hours of deliberation, the five men and seven women returned a unanimous guilty verdict.
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Rose and her two accomplices were given fines totalling just over £1,000 and each ordered to do 150 hours of unpaid community work.
'I was disappointed, I felt sad,' says Rose, director of Animal Rising (formerly Animal Rebellion), a non-violent activist movement that campaigns for a sustainable, plant-based, meat-free food system for humans, and more rights for animals, particularly the right not to be eaten by said humans.
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The verdict made me realise there is so much work to do.
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It is depressing thinking about how far we've got to go to get animals out of this dire situation that they're in.'
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Animal rights activist Rose Patterson at home in London with one of her dogs, James
Rose Patterson, 37, along with Rosa Sharkey and Sarah Foy, both 26, took three lambs during an early morning visit to Appleton Farm in Norfolk
One senses she is more than prepared for the fight.
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Her rented, two-bedroom riverside home overlooks Leyton Marshes, her mid-century furniture is bought second-hand on Vinted and eBay.
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She takes yoga and pilates classes, wears winged eyeliner, avoids leather and feathers, uses only cruelty-free cleaning products and has a fridge full of kale, oat milk, dairy-free mozzarella and pouches of her favourite Squeaky Bean vegan chicken-alike savoury bites.
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'I like the Cajun one best,' she says, putting on the kettle to make some green tea and showing me the word 'ahimsa' tattooed on her right wrist.
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'It's Sanskrit – it means compassion and non-violence to all living beings.'
Rose, who is 37, lives here with her husband Wayne and their two rescue dogs, a Korean Jindo called Oliver and James the beagle.
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Need I add that everyone in this household is vegan, including the dogs?
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I thought not.
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Wayne is an animal rights lawyer from San Francisco who personally rescued Oliver from a Chinese dog meat factory, while Rose rescued James from a testing lab.
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Rose earns £39,000 as the director of Animal Rising, the charity she joined in 2019 as a volunteer.
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Since then, her life of protest and activism has seen her arrested more than 20 times, once for putting red dye in a Trafalgar Square fountain to 'draw attention to the fact that animal agriculture is causing climate change'.
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The judge threw the case out on the grounds the dye was not permanent and caused no damage.
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Patterson is dismayed at being found guilty of stealing three lambs from King Charles after climbing into a field on his Sandringham estate in Norfolk back in 2023
What?
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I like Rose, I admire her commitment to her beliefs, but dyeing a fountain?
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However, in this curious world of provocative activism, practitioners feel they have the moral warrant to do as they please in the name of the cause.
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In addition to the lamb heist, Rose has three more criminal convictions – one for aggravated trespass at a beagle breeding facility in Huntington, one for criminal damage during a protest and blockade outside a McDonald's burger factory in Scunthorpe, and one for disrupting a horserace at a track in Ayr.
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Rose, I cry, what are you really?
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'Well, I've never been convicted of causing a public nuisance, so I don't think I am one,' she says mildly.
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Her worst moment came when Animal Rising were still called Animal Rebellion and they were going through a phase of using 'lock-on' equipment to make their point – chaining themselves to the gates of Smithfield meat market in London, blockading the streets of Westminster to demand that financial institutions stop backing animal agriculture, and so on.
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At the 2021 McDonald's factory protest, Rose chained herself to a van using a pair of thumb cuffs.
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The police removed me by pulling my thumbs out and I was screaming in pain.
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I kicked out and accidentally kicked the tail-light of a police van.
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I did apologise.
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Rose appears not to be one of those militant activist fanatics who is going to firebomb your garden shed because you like eating sausages, but she is determined to achieve Animal Rising's stated aims of ending factory farming and turning the entire country vegetarian.
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How realistic can that be, given that human beings are carnivores?
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…and 72 more, not listed.
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