Crufts winner's live TV ceremony disrupted by animal rights protester

An intruder stormed into the arena as the winner of the Crufts dog show was announced on live television.

The male intruder, who was named by Crufts organisers as a protester from the animal rights group Peta, was wrestled to the ground in the middle of the show arena, the NEC in Birmingham.

Owner Yvette Short, of Edinburgh, had proudly stepped up to the podium with her best in show winner – a two-and-a-half-year-old whippet bitch called Tease – when the intruder sprinted on to the scene. She quickly grabbed Tease as several men ran down and cornered the protester in front of the live audience who began to boo. The crowd broke into applause as the intruder was taken away.

Source: theguardian