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| birth_place = Dunvant , Wales | residence = | nationality = | ethnicity = | other_names = Heather James | known_for = Animal rights campaigns, specifically Consort beagles (1996), Save the Hill Grove Cats (1997), and Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (1999); jailed for 11 years in January 2009. | education = | alma_mater = | employer = | notable works = | occupation = | years_active = | home_town = | spouse = Greg Avery (divorced c. 2002) | partner = | children = | parents = George Barwick and Shirley Barwick, née Nicholson | relations = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }} Heather Nicholson (born 30 January 1967), also known as Heather James, is a British animal rights activist. She is best known for having co-founded three pivotal animal rights campaigns in the UK in the 1990s. In 1997, Consort Kennels in Hereford, which bred beagles for animal-testing labs, was closed after a ten-month campaign led by Nicholson and her husband at the time, Greg Avery. In 1999, Save the Hill Grove Cats closed Hill Grove Farm in Oxfordshire, which bred cats for laboratories, after a two-year campaign, also led by Nicholson and Avery. In the same year, Nicholson, Avery, and Natasha Dellemagne set up Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) with the aim of closing Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), a contract animal-testing company based in Cambridgeshire. Nicholson was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment in January 2009 for conspiracy to blackmail in connection with the SHAC campaign. Six other senior SHAC activists, including Avery and Dellemagne, were jailed for the same offences; all seven were alleged by police to be key figures within the Animal Liberation Front.〔〔(Laville 2008 ).〕 Nicholson pleaded not guilty to the charges. She expects to be released in November 2012, taking into account time spent on remand.〔(Turner, 25 January 2009 ).〕 ==Early life== Nicholson was born in Dunvant and raised in Killay, Swansea, the daughter of George Barwick, a teacher and vegan, and his wife, Shirley Barwick, née Nicholson. She attended Olchfa Comprehensive School. A lifelong ovo vegetarian, then vegan, she spent time as a teenager working for the RSPCA in Singleton Park, Swansea, but left because she couldn't bear to see the animals euthanized.〔(Yeoman, 23 December 2008 ).〕 Her mother told the ''Western Mail'': "She used to come home crying her eyes out because they had a policy then of putting down healthy dogs they could not find homes for."〔(Turner, 22 January 2009 ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heather Nicholson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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