The nine lives of Jacob Lloyd: will Animal Welfare Investigations Project be the last episode in his law enforcer fantasy saga?
Childhood indoctrination by extremists set Jacob on a path of moral policing. But campaigns he created to protect pets and punish abusers were really scams to fleece animal lovers
This article was first published in two parts in Country Squire Magazine as Jacob Lloyd: Animal Rights Scammer Still Scamming parts I and II.
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The northern Philippines, December 2024
Jacob Lloyd sped down a narrow, dusty road, diesel fumes and hot air from an open window filling his nostrils. He'd been driven through small towns decked in festive lights and blaring sounds of Christmas, streets filled with shoppers and food stalls. But there was only one thing on Jacob’s mind - busting dog-meat-trading scum.
During the day-long journey from the UK, he told followers of his company Animal Welfare Investigations Project Limited (AWIP), how crucial timing was for the difficult and dangerous mission ahead.
“Thank goodness for free, in-plane Wi-Fi! I’m sending this from my seat on the plane, somewhere above the clouds, as I head to the Philippines to join our rescue team,” he wrote. “By the time I land, we’ll be preparing to shut down a brutal dog slaughterhouse and rescue as many dogs as we can.”
On the ground was investigation lead of AWIP Philippines, Greg Salido Quimpo. He’d been updating supporters over the weeks with messages echoing Jacob’s sense of urgency and spicing it up with real-time drama.
“Right now, I’m standing outside a brutal dog meat slaughterhouse,” he wrote on 13th November. “Inside, terrified dogs are crammed into cages, awaiting a gruesome fate - roasted alive on skewers.”
Despite their proximity, he and his team were in a predicament.
“We are ready to act, but there’s one urgent problem: we don’t have the funds to carry out this rescue. Without immediate support, these dogs will continue to suffer and die in unimaginable pain… We need to raise £5,000 in the next 3 days to save these dogs and ensure no animal is ever harmed here again… Right now, innocent dogs are trapped in unimaginable conditions, waiting for a chance at freedom... But I can’t do this without you.”
Greg, presumably still standing outside the slaughterhouse with his team, fired off an update a few hours later: “We’re so close to reaching our goal of £5,000 to rescue them and shut this place down for good... Without immediate action, these dogs will continue to suffer unimaginable cruelty.“
Days later, Greg posted a message saying police and AWIP raided the slaughterhouse and rescued a dog that was “minutes away from a cruel and senseless death”.
As is often the case, the story doesn’t end there: “Her survival depends on ongoing veterinary care, rehabilitation, and the compassion of people like you… We’ve raised £973 toward her £4,000 goal, but we still have a long way to go.“
Greg wasn’t speaking Tagalog, but you can translate that to mean: ‘give us some money or the dog dies’.
We’re told the Philippines is riddled with dog farms, so it was just another one crossed off the list, with the team then moving on to the next, a job it could only do thanks to generous donors. Greg says there are 300 left and “with enough support (your money), we’re determined to shut them all down within the next five years“.
5x365/300 = one every six days x £5,000 = £1.5 million (£2.7 million including post-rescue support). Good luck Greg.
Enter Jacob Lloyd. Greg didn’t hold back when it came to the significance of the visit, which would probably cost £4,000-£5,000 in flights, accommodation, transport and consumables.
“This work isn’t easy. It takes courage, persistence, and above all, knowing that people like you are by our side. Even Jacob, our Executive Director, is traveling here from the UK to support us on the ground. It truly feels like a global mission.”
Looking out over the blur of endless rice fields and hills on the horizon, Jacob smiled as he reminded himself how far he’d come since the early days sabotaging hunts in chilly Britain. He was watching his new company morphing into an international force, unrestricted by borders or jurisdictions in its quest to stamp out animal cruelty forever.
Back in the real world, Jacob Lloyd's rise has left a sticky snail trail of trolling and trickery across the web. Now he’s training law enforcers in the US and hobnobbing with an elite UK-based intelligence community but still maintains dozens of webpages begging for cash to run his company.
Is he taking advantage of good-natured animal lovers and authorities on both sides of the Atlantic while making a mockery of anyone who hasn’t checked his background?
The big question his supporters and 'partners' should be asking is what has Jacob Lloyd actually done to help or protect animals?
The simple answer is very little. More complex analysis follows.
The wonder years, 2009-2013
Jacob Lloyd was born Jake Ashton Knight. In the small hunt and badger cull saboteur community though, he was known as 'Meatball' as he learnt the ropes from Terry Hill (Crawley and Horsham) and convicted criminal Dafydd Hughes (Wales), men notorious for their fakery, violence, intimidation and unpleasant nature.
An ex-colleague described Jacob as "a sort of energetic trainee of indeterminate gender" who was “bouncy and excitable” as he ran around with a video camera.
Snooping was one of his tasks, capturing ‘crimes’ as they happened, as revealed in The Argus article ‘Health officials act after animal welfare video posted on website’. It described him as “an investigator” with the Animal Defence Society (ADS) who stumbled across a farm he believed was mistreating livestock. It said nothing about him trespassing on private property while filming a four-minute video of “cows and pigs standing in pens in a shed and also standing in the open”.
"It was a very distressing scene," he told the paper, although inspectors from Defra found nothing wrong when they visited, suggesting animals standing around a farmyard is normal.
Nevertheless, the coverage was enough to germinate the seed in Jacob’s mind, that this was his purpose. At the same time, he was developing online skills, asking police for advice, requesting FOIs and tracking down potential animal abusers in forums.
While at ADS, he was convicted of fraud by misrepresentation for trying to confiscate (steal) rabbits from a breeder. In the 2021 Times article 'Criminal past of shamed charity boss', he told the paper his name change to Jacob Lloyd had nothing to do with the criminal conviction, which he insisted was related to "rescuing animals". Some of his actions did lead to confiscations.
He met resistance from people who questioned his authority to take away pets he believed were abused. While defending himself, he resorted to personal insults, spreading unsubstantiated rumours about critics and publishing their personal details online.
Negativity towards his campaigns became too much, so Jacob created AWEA (Animal Welfare Enforcement Agency) Limited in 2013 - the first of many companies he set up to end cruelty to animals and try to give himself some legitimacy, credibility and perhaps a feeling of authority. On its website, he initially hid 'limited' so it would look like a charity, ignoring the bigger issue of 'enforcement agency' giving the false impression AWEA was a branch of the government.
His listing as AWEA's director was not Jacob's first entry in the Companies House register. That was in 2009, when he worked for Hostingthing Hosting Internet Solutions Limited. There are few details about the company, but according to Companies House, it dissolved in August 2011 and between 20th and 22nd August 2009, Jake Ashton Knight held the position of 'director general'. Going by the July 1996 birth date used for his other companies, Jacob would have only been 13 at the time, three years below the minimum legal age. To fix this, the accompanying date of birth appears to have been adjusted to July 1992, which made Jacob 16 at the time. Or were the later dates changed to make him four years younger? That's a question for Jacob and his mother, who was 12 in 1992.
If Jacob thought AWEA Limited would legitimise his investigations and gain trust online, it didn't work, with critics spotting a pattern of him creating animal welfare organisations then asking everyone else to pay for them.
Besides AWEA and ADS, in just a few years Jacob constantly reinvented himself as Animal Kindness UK, Arun Animal Action, Animal Action Limited, West Sussex Animal Cruelty Investigations Team, Southcoast Animal Rescue and, with his mother, the Campaign for the Abolition of Animal Exploitation.
The twist
After shutting down AWEA, Jacob honed his surveillance and intelligence techniques doing 'awareness training' with Prevent, the UK government's anti-extremism unit run by the police. Its aim was to spot religious fanatics before they turned into full-blown terrorists or took holidays in Syria. Taking in a teen with a criminal record and history of animal rights extremism might seem risky, but the Home Office could have seen Jacob's past as valuable expertise.
"I was surrounded by seasoned veterans," he claimed in an interview with Roch, a website that rates dog hotels. "Many of those guys were retired from the police force, and I was only 18. I helped them with their work for a while, and then this job came up doing field operations. And I thought, oh, that sounds exciting, but I was surrounded by all these old guys, and we would sit in a van for six hours a day. They would teach me things... and I learned a lot."
Jacob put his new-found skills to practice out in the woods with mates.
"[We] would go out into the night to plant tracking devices, hide cameras, and slowly build up our intelligence packages on our subjects of interest," Jacob recalled. "We would research people we would learn about online, then take our research into the field and work surveillance on them."
However, Jacob was frustrated at spending all that time and effort and getting nowhere. He felt like a pioneer, excelling in the field of unlicensed snooping, yet was misunderstood by the establishment he so yearned to join.
"I had assumed at the time that people like the RSPCA might do that sort of work, but as it turns out, they didn’t. Nobody was leveraging intelligence gathering techniques in animal cruelty investigations like I was... People don't understand the value of watching these people. We're spooks who spy on the people that hurt dogs and other animals."
In reality, the RSPCA often doesn't waste time, money and effort trying to prove cases, as whatever it says in court is taken as fact. An example is Julie Wright, a dog owner from Slough whose house was raided by police and RSPCA officers in 2014. They confiscated her animals and accused her of training pit bulls to fight. After she was prosecuted, the story the RSPCA sold the public, through the no-questions-asked media was: "Cruel pet owner BANNED from keeping animals after RSPCA uncover dog fighting training camp". The charges were ridiculous, but it was the kind of sensational victory that encourages the public to donate money to the charity.
The only evidence was a bite stick found in Julie's shed and Facebook 'friends' who may have had links to fighting, but probably not. In any event, she didn't even know them. She was allowed strictly-controlled visits to see her dogs, during which RSPCA staff treated her like dirt. Her dogs died under their dubious care.
When Jacob set up the charity Animal Protection Services (APS) in November 2019, he was on a mission to crack down on animal cruelty, including dogfighting and his pet peeve - puppy mills. However, the intelligence-gathering skills he'd learnt over the years were dumped in favour of the cheaper and easier means-profiling perfected by the RSPCA. Like the charity, he could project the image of winning the war on animal-abusing bastards by targeting people with no means to fight back. Instant win.
Finding targets was boosted by Jacob’s contacts; PR company owner Charlotte Belle Tobin and celebrity vet Marc Abraham.
Tobin, who once raised more than £3,000 to buy APS a ‘dog ambulance‘, approached anti-puppy-farm campaigns and put them in touch with APS, expecting Jacob to help them out. He didn’t.
“They compiled loads of evidence of puppy farming and breach of the breeders licence but APS did sweet FA,” according to one campaigner. “I am also aware of another case of a puppy purchased from a notorious puppy farmer that died and the owner had loads of veterinary bills but APS again did nothing. They never took on any of the big operators because those puppy farmers are loaded and their real solicitors would have had APS for breakfast.”
Tobin was pals with Abraham, who in turn had connections with animal-trading website Pets4Homes. At the time, a third of all puppies sold/rehomed in the UK went through the website. Endorsements by Abraham angered campaigners, who felt Pets4Homes was unregulated, out-of-control and riddled with bad breeders. Attempts by Pets4Homes to address complaints, such as introducing a deposit system, did little to appease critics.
Popularly known as ‘Marc the Vet‘, Abraham invited Jacob and Pets4Homes to meetings of the All-party Parliamentary Dog Advisory Welfare Group (APDAWG), which he runs. Through these connections, APS struck a data-sharing agreement with Pets4Homes, where the website would send Jacob details of users connected with “suspected breaches of animal welfare regulations”, so he could probe then prosecute them - further reducing the need for his unique powers of investigation. It also explains how APS, which was just two people, managed to carry out 'investigations' on suspected animal abusers all over the country.
“Pets4Homes are referring as many cases to us as possible and we are then using that in investigations,” he told SWLondoner in December 2020. “That says they are committed to ending the illegal puppy trade. I would rather dogs be advertised on Pets4Homes than any other website.”
(UPDATE: However, on 8th January, 2025, Pets4Homes said it did not agree with Jacob's statement reported by SWLondoner and only “referred to [APS] a select number of cases during a limited time period".)
For APS, Jacob’s appearance at APDAWG’s February 2021 webinar was the moment where everything started turning to 💩.
Downfall
There were warning signs in January 2021, when the Charities Commission refused to respond to an FOI request about six complaints against APS, because it would make the charity look bad.
Charities have “statutory objectives and functions“, it said, including “increasing public trust and confidence” in them and “identifying and investigating apparent misconduct or mismanagement” then taking action to fix it. “The disclosure of the information [was] likely to prejudice these functions," it warned.
APS wasn’t being run properly and it seems likely that when the commission prised open its file, it inhaled a nauseous waft from rotting fish stuffed in-between the documents. Two months later the commission announced it was probing the charity.
In December 2021, it finally admitted three of the six complaints were about the charity’s conduct, but the investigation focussed on all six.
For two years, Jacob hauled dozens of innocent people into court in private prosecutions. There was at least one victim of APS who was never told whether there was even a case against her or when they would get their animals back. The details are in Brianca’s distraught posts in the Champdogs forum. She accuses Jacob of trying to pressure her into signing over ownership of the dogs and charging £20 a day for him to look after each 'confiscated' animal. They were kept for months.
“I am wondering if I pay this price being innocent what price will pay a guilty person?” Brianca asks. “I have 2 kids asking when the dogs are coming home...but I don't even have a answer for that.”
Jacob worked with now defunct law firm Parry and Welch Solicitors (PAWS) to exploit a loophole allowing them to claim extortionate costs from courts after threatening defendants with trials they knew would not go ahead. They got away with it until the judge in two of the cases insisted they go to trial. When it came to the crunch, James Parry confessed that Jacob scrapped cases where defendants refused to admit guilt and chose to go to court, laying bare his instant win strategy.
Judge Nicholas Dean was concerned people were pressured to plead guilty. He explained the fees scam, with examples of the stupidly-high costs charity boss Jacob and employee Serena James demanded back from the court, which paid them using public money.
An FOI request showed that between 25th January and 8th September 2021, 23 applications for costs were made by APS and anyone acting on behalf of the charity. Nearly all applications were approved and a total of £95,182.05 paid.
In the combined trial, APS’s evidence contained a meagre two pages of witness statements written by 'investigator' Serena James, which Dean noted were “identical“ and not even enough to get the cases to court. "No one could properly conclude that there were realistic prospects for conviction based on the scant evidence produced by APS," he ruled.
Dean threw out the cases and his judgment shredded the reputations of APS and the law firm, which closed not long after. Jacob blamed the firm for everything and threatened to sue, but instead, PAWS sued APS and was awarded £22,000.
Private Eye magazine asked Jacob whether he had "re-examined” the 100-or-so “successful” prosecutions, but he wouldn’t say.
Above: Serena James ‘live from Wales‘ on BBC Breakfast in 2021, warning viewers about unscrupulous puppy farmers selling dogs online
Targets say they were persistently harassed by Jacob once he latched onto them, as if it were a personal vendetta. Court judgments weren’t the end, with victims still dogged by APS’s extremist followers reminding them they were animal-abusing scum in death threat letters. Jacob has been campaigning for an animal abuser registry, which would ensure these people - guilty or not - would be persecuted for the rest of their lives.
APS wasn’t wrapped up until February 2024. Charity news website Civil Society quoted a 'source' as saying it closed because of "negative publicity" related to the judge's comments.
The same month, PAWS was cleared of professional misconduct by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). Jacob saw that as a ‘get out of jail free‘ card and straight away spread the news in an interview with Our Dogs website under the title: ‘APS charity cleared of wrongdoing’.
While the SRA investigation is over, it’s January 2025 and the Charity Commission probe is still going on.
The ninth life of Jacob Lloyd
“We unofficially formed about five years ago,” Jacob told Roch in June 2024 of his ninth incarnation, Animal Welfare Investigations Project Limited. “Then, two and a half years ago, we officially registered as a non-profit.”
Sometimes Jacob Lloyd forgets that what he tells people will end up online. Anyone can find out very quickly, that that would make AWIP 'officially' older than APS. There's also a different date on AWIP's website. Then there's the Fundraising Regulator page that says it first registered as a non-charity on 5th September 2024, three months after the Roch interview.
With AWIP, Jacob dialled down the prosecutions. There was one notable exception; the case of a man in Newport, Wales, who pleaded guilty in November 2023 to neglecting his dog. At an appeal in 2024, his solicitor said the man was given poor legal advice at the first hearing, evidence was ignored and he was pressured into pleading guilty. It sounded like a case ripped straight from the APS files.
"We will always look into concerns that are raised about animal welfare," Jacob told South Wales Argus. "We do not take the decision to prosecute lightly."
Jacob used that case as proof pet owners in South Wales were irresponsible and needed monitoring and he had a solution.
"Following a successful cruelty case in November 2023, where AWIP successfully prosecuted an individual under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, we've seen firsthand the pressing need for proactive welfare measures across Wales," he said in a Penarth Times report in April 2024. "The rise in animal cruelty and neglect is alarming, and through [the] 'Animal Welfare Wales' [scheme], we are committed to turning the tide, ensuring the wellbeing of animals across Wales."
According to several Welsh newspapers, "uniformed field officers" would be patrolling the streets of Swansea, Cardiff and Newport, and where necessary, "taking animals into possession with a view towards bringing a prosecution". A hotline was set up so locals could rat on their neighbours if they thought they weren't treating their pets properly or just didn't like them. There was also a call for "compassionate individuals" to act as "foster carers" who could provide "emergency boarding" for confiscated animals.
It was a recipe for disaster, but none of the local councils appeared to know anything about the scheme. Nor did they seem concerned people might be wandering around their towns and estates snatching animals without anyone's authority, then dumping them on volunteers whose backgrounds are unknown.
At the time, Jacob was busy perfecting his LinkedIn profile, running webinars and posting news stories about victories over animal abusers that had nothing to do with him. He gained a following, including National Wildlife Crime Unit head Kevin Lacks-Kelly.
November saw a three-day event organised by AWIP with guest speakers including Special Assistant US Attorney Jessica Rock and Wayne Pacelle, an animal rights activist who resigned as CEO of the Humane Society of the United States after allegations of sexual harassment and assault.
Also speaking was Denver Animal Protection officer Rachel 'Rae' Smith, chair of the AWIP Advisory Board, whatever that is. She's the face of the AWIP podcast, a weekly show that interviews mainly US-based figures from organisations like PETA.
In a press release, Jacob said: “We were pleased to host this training webinar and welcome the opportunity to enhance capabilities across the globe on investigating organised animal crime. We will continue to support law enforcement agencies around the world by providing operational intelligence and training sessions.”
In his time slot, it said Jacob "provided in-depth insights into the application of OSINT (open source intelligence) in gathering evidence against dog fighting operations" and "offered specific, actionable examples of how participants can leverage OSINT in their investigative and prosecutorial efforts".
While he has had plenty of experience prosecuting, exactly what qualifies Jacob to speak about law enforcement is unclear. In June 2024, Jacob listed eight 'licences and qualifications' on his LinkedIn profile. By the November webinar, he had 13, although was missing one of the courses he announced he was taking early in his career.
A few days after the event, Samantha Connolly posted a review on her Philzoothropy blog. She began by admitting being "a fan of Jacob Lloyd’s work". She didn't explain what he'd actually done to impress her and the only things she is likely to have seen are his posts on LinkedIn about animals and rare appearances on the AWIP podcast.
"Jacob Lloyd, founder of AWIP has spent over 12 years investigating organised animal crime, with involvement in thousands of cases such as animal fighting, wildlife crime and illegal puppy farming."
Twelve years ago, Jacob was a member of Animal Defence Society, trying to steal rabbits and getting charged with fraud by misrepresentation. The following 10 years were just as controversial. Connolly, like Roch interviewer Guise Bule, hasn't done any fact checking. Nor, it seems, have members of the OSINT community Jacob has infiltrated.
Intelligence failure
In October 2022, TechRound ran this headline: ‘Secretive GCHQ Funded Company, TurgenSec Acquired’. TurgenSec had built a reputation for "disclosing data breaches to the largest companies (Samsung, Rolls Royce and Virgin Media) and governments (the Philippines)", according to the website. It was bought by "an unknown party".
TurgenSec CEO and cofounder Nathaniel Fried said the company was set up to "empower British companies and western governments with offensive intelligence capabilities on par or better than those used against them by China and Russia". Part of GCHQ's Cyber Accelerator programme, the company developed OSINT tools and sold the services to its target markets.
Fried and friends have become big names in their field and in 2024, formed the UK OSINT Community. They have an impressive portfolio, which is why it's odd seeing Jacob Lloyd in the list of founding members. What was his input? This idea he slipped through the OSINT safety net is surreal.
In interviews, he touts the magic of OSINT at every chance, as if he were one of the creators.
The UK OSINT Community site also has a mission statement, including a commitment to "promote legal, ethical OSINT standards to protect privacy and trust".
While AWIP was establishing itself as a trusted source for advice on investigating animal cruelty, its Trustpilot page filled up with fake reviews.
"We value an open and transparent relationship with our supporters," writes Jacob on AWIP's website under the heading 'Trust and Transparency'. "We strive to be open about failures as well as successes. We are currently rated 4.9 stars on Trustpilot, having achieved one of the highest ratings in the nonprofit community."
Setup in January 2024, it attracted 205 comments - 126 of them coming on 29th March then 37 the next day. Many of the reviews don’t make sense, as AWIP provides no products or services, merely solicits donations through publishing animal cruelty stories and their resolutions - real or imagined - with few actually connected to the company.
The lone bad comment identifies another problem: "It is a 'not profit limited company'. This is stated on AWIP's website, reviews saying it is a charity are misleading." It's an easy mistake to make, since AWIP's main income source is donations.
The statement on the company's website says it "chooses not to be a charity to avoid restrictions on its work, including investigations and campaigning". That should silence anyone suggesting it was related to the ongoing investigation.
Google reviews tell a similar story to those on Trustpilot, with 66 out of 68 created in November 2024. Virtually all of them are five-star ratings and many don't make sense.
None of the reviews on either platform are from anyone attending AWIP webinars or Filipinos thanking Jacob or Greg for ridding their community of dog meat.
Year of the snake
“Just hours ago, I received a tip-off about something truly heartbreaking,” starts Greg’s email on Christmas Eve. “There’s a dog slaughterhouse operating in the southern Philippines. Right now, innocent dogs - many of them stolen from loving homes - are crammed into tiny cages, terrified and waiting to be killed for meat… I’ve asked for the green light to start the investigation, gather the evidence, and work with authorities to shut this slaughterhouse down for good… But with our income this year already down by more than 15%, we urgently need your help to move forward.”
We never get an update from Greg about the “brutal dog slaughterhouse” Jacob was rushing to the Philippines to bust, just more emails asking for money.
"I go there a few times a year to work on illegal dog meat trade investigations," Jacob says in the Roch interview. “One organisation, the Animal Kingdom Foundation (AKF), was doing some work on it, but it was struggling to make an impact. It had no formal surveillance training, intelligence training, or anything like that. I contacted it and asked if we could come out and learn about what it was doing and try to help them. We rescued over 30 dogs in six months and arrested 12 dog meat traders.”
The people in red T-shirts in the video above are from AKF, which is based in Tarlac, a couple of hours north of Manila. Photos from the bust are still used in emails asking for donations to fund dog slaughterhouse busts. The problem is, AKF's Heidi Marquez Caguioa dismisses Jacob's claims about him helping them bust dog meat businesses:
“AKF was never affiliated with or connected with the Animal Welfare Investigation Project… There are no DMT work we know of with AWIP here in the Philippines.“
Heidi also distanced the organisation from Greg, saying: “Since 2022, Mr. Greg Quimpo is no longer connected to the Animal Kingdom Foundation.“ That’s one year earlier than Greg claims on his CV.
Regardless, Jacob stresses in the Roch interview the danger posed by his employees during these operations: "Last year in the Philippines, working on a dogfight investigation, one of our people was violently threatened with a gun, intimidation, it happens. We've had people be killed before, an inspector who was infiltrating a cock fighting ring. He was killed... This can be dangerous work."
It's unclear why anyone would need to infiltrate a cockfighting ring, as it's a legal, billion-peso industry in the Philippines.
Jacob himself is paranoid about 'bad guys' taking him down: "I have had physical threats, a gun pointed at me, and I have been assaulted in the field. But I refuse to be intimidated. My house is alarmed, and I've got detection sensors on everything. I also check under my car daily for a tracker."
In Jacob’s fantasy world, anything can happen, judging by this exchange in the same interview:
Roch: Your organisation's going global, and you are attracting attention.
Jacob: It's definitely happening… For example, I just ran some training sessions for state, federal, and local agencies in the US.
Roch: Fantastic! An Englishman in America teaching them intelligence. Britannia rules the waves.
Jacob: Yeah, you know, which is great. I also worked alongside a US Special Assistant Attorney (Jessica Rock)… It feels good to have agencies like the FBI and USDA be interested in my work and ask if I can come over and help train their people.
The idea of the FBI being interested in Jacob isn't far-fetched. It could be the authorities finally realising he is a danger to the public. What better way to suss him out than invite him to your office for a face-to face meeting and who knows, stick a tracker on his car.
For decades, the FBI has warned about the threat posed by the animal rights movement when it comes to domestic terrorism.
"Special interest extremism, as characterised by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), and related extremists, has emerged as a serious domestic terrorist threat," the FBI's Deputy Assistant Director John Lewis told senators at a hearing in 2004. "Such extremists conduct acts of politically-motivated violence to force segments of society, including the general public, to change attitudes about issues considered important to the extremists’ causes... 'Direct action' generally occurs in the form of criminal activity designed to cause economic loss or to destroy the victims' company operations or property."
Lewis recognised that the movement was imported from the UK and inspired by laboratories that experimented on animals. He touted "cooperation among law enforcement agencies at all levels" as a "comprehensive response to terrorism".
It's very likely the law enforcers Jacob is training are checking his background.
He was brought up in a family of animal rights extremists, so indoctrinated from birth. That led him to commit crimes for the cause in his teens and campaigning for law changes and registers for any person he perceived as a threat to animals.
With Animal Protection Services, he proved that guilt or innocence of the people he targeted was less important than the result, prompting the Charity Commission investigation. He was terrorising dog owners and breeders, who knew the consequences of getting on his bad side.
"I think the dog breeding world were scared of us," Jacob told Our Dogs. "I think they were scared they could they be next. I heard that a few times. We were conducting undercover investigations and that raised concern. The local authorities allowed unlicensed breeders... The licensing laws are there to safeguard animals. The local authorities weren't doing enough and... I would say if the state doesn't do it, somebody has got to do it."
When Jacob was 16, he published an article on the ADS website which appears sympathetic to ALF's causes and direct action.
"We have seen governments use legislation to prevent animal rights activists from peacefully protesting against animal abuse," he wrote. "These activists stand with placards and use megaphones against companies who are involved in abusing animals. Some activists claim responsibility for criminal activities including rescuing animals and arson. But did you know if you published something you saw inside a UK lab, you will be dragged to court too?"
It was 2012 and Jacob seemed to be regurgitating years of extreme animal rights propaganda drilled into him by his parents.
"Peaceful protest has been criminalised by an offence known as ‘interfering with the contractual relationships of an animal research organisation’," he continued. "The question is – are these activists terrorists or freedom fighters?"
That's something for the FBI, US and UK law enforcers to decide.
Anyone harassed by the RSPCA or any other ‘charity’, contact the-shg.
For more information about Jacob Lloyd’s fatuous animal rights crusade, see this story: A shaggy dog story: how a teenage animal rights extremist cheated supporters, duped celebrities and destroyed innocent lives, also republished in CSM as Yet Another Animal Rights Scammer Exposed.