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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Wesley Holmes

No charges yet after 118 animal rights protesters arrested at Aintree

Dozens of animal rights activists remain in police custody following mass disruption of yesterday's Grand National festival.

Activist group Animal Rising said that 68 of 118 people arrested yesterday remain in custody, however, nobody has been charged "at this time".

Some 42 arrested protesters were let go yesterday without being taken into custody, and a further five were taken in but have since been released, they added.

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