AR-News: Fwd: Sea Shepherd Posts Reward in St. Lucia Jane Tipson Murder Case

[jim robertson]

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>Sea Shepherd Posts Reward in St. Lucia Jane Tipson Murder Case
>
>By Sea Shepherd St. Lucia representative Dean Walton
>
>The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has posted a reward of $5,000 for
>information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons
>who murdered Jane Tipson.
>
>Captain Paul Watson has notified the St. Lucia police of the reward.
>
>The crime scene was contaminated by police officers and little forensic
>evidence was found, The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is hopeful that
>the reward, a substantial sum in St. Lucia, will bring forth someone with
>information or evidence  relating to the murder.
>
>Jane Tipson, a dedicated conservationist and animal rights activist, was
>murdered in St. Lucia in the early morning hours on Wednesday the 17 of
>September.  She was shot in the head a close range and killed by an unknown
>assailant as she drove on to her property around 1:30 am.  The murder was
>clearly a contract killing.  There is some question as to who was involved
>and why they would want Jane killed.  An article about Jane's murder
>appeared in the London Times Sunday edition on page three and there they
>eluded to the probability that the contract killing was carried out because
>of her work against the Dolphin Fantaseas plans to create a dolphin
>encounter tourist attraction in St. Lucia and other islands in the 
>Caribbean
>region.  This group has a very shady past and currently has dolphin
>encounter operations in Anguilla and Antigua.
>
>Jane moved to St. Lucia from her native Devonshire England some 30 years
>ago.  She was a co-founder of the Eastern Caribbean Coalition for
>Environmental Awareness and was responsible for the ECCEA regional program
>in St. Lucia.
>She also created the Whale and Dolphin Watching Association and was
>responsible for the development of a now
>flourishing whale-watching industry in St.Lucia. She was tireless in her
>leadership of many anti-captivity campaigns.  She founded and dedicated her
>time and virtually all of her income to the St Lucia Animal Protection
>Society (SLAPS) protecting and caring for hundreds of wild and domestic
>animals in a way few people have ever done.
>
>As is the case with many Environmental and Animal Activists there was an
>ongoing attempt to discredit Jane and she was
>continuously harassed and threatened by those whose profit at any cost
>methods were threatened by her activities.  We
>all, especially the animals, have lost another truly wonderful person to 
>the
>greed and corruption of those who profit at the expense of the animals and
>the environment. Jane would want us to continue the fight for conservation
>and protection of the animals and we must do just that.
>
>Jane Tipson was very helpful to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 
>the
>summer of 2001 when the Sea Shepherd ship  Ocean Warrior was in Castries
>harbor and investigating illegal whaling activities in St. Lucia. Captain
>Paul Watson responding to news of her murder said, "Because of the enemies
>that Jane made in high places because of her efforts to help animals in St.
>Lucia, I fear that the investigation into her death will not be a priority.
>There was certainly no care to protect the integrity of the crime scene and
>valuable forensic evidence was lost because of the police. I remember my
>life being threatened when Sea Shepherd's ship was last in St. Lucia, and 
>my
>experience there illustrates to me just what a courageous heroine Jane was
>in continuing to champion the animals and habitats in the face of very real
>threats of violence."
>
>
>
>Founder and President
>Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
>www.seashepherd.org
>National Director - Sierra Club
>paulwatson at earthlink.net

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