Granny Grave Robbers Nicked

What's an animal rights activist to do? You want people to stop breeding guinea pigs for experimentation, but the protests are going nowhere and all the living people you've intimidated refuse to budge. The only sensible thing to do then is dig up the nearest corpse and see where that gets you.

Sounds a little muddle-headed no? The odd thing is that it works.

Following the theft of their dead grandmother from her place of (almost) final rest the Hall family from Staffordshire closed down their farm after sticking out six years of abuse.

Despite the guinea pigs being saved the old dear's bones failed to materialise, but she's a step closer to home after police arrested four people on suspicion of conspiracy to blackmail.

The full sorry tale (BBC)