Jill Phipps

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jill Phipps
Occupation	Animal Rights Activist
Date Of Birth	Jan 15, 1964(1964-01-15)
Age	60
Date Of Death	1995-02-01
Birthplace	England
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Capricorn

Jill Phipps Biography

Jill Phipps is one of the most popular and richest Animal Rights Activist who was born on January 15, 1964 in England, United Kingdom. Jill Phipps (15 January 1964 1 February, 1995) was one of the British animal rights advocate who was crushed to death in an animal rights demonstration held in Baginton, Warwickshire, England as she tried to stop a lorry transporting live veal calves that were heading towards the continent of Europe through Coventry Airport.

Exports of veal calves out of Coventry Airport ended months later when the company that was operating the flights that was owned by the pilot responsible for flight of veal, Christopher Bartley-Jolly became bankrupt after being accused of operating weapons across Slovakia across Sudan in violation of EU regulations. In 2002, he was convicted with smuggling 271 kilograms of cocaine out of Jamaica to Southend airport..He was later sentenced to a sentence of twenty year in jail.

The continuing level of protest was such that several local councils and a harbour board banned live exports from their localities. All live exports of calves later stopped due to fears of BSE infection. In 2006 this ban was lifted, but Coventry Airport pledged that it would refuse requests to fly veal calves.

Following the time her child Luke arrived, Phipps spent more time taking care of Luke (having divorced from her husband, she took care of him as an unmarried parent). Phipps attended a few protests and hunt sabotage gatherings during school holidays along alongside her child. The decision to use Coventry airport for the export of calves from veal horrified her. In January 1995, she walked nearly 100 miles to Coventry towards Westminster to protest. On her 31st birthday , she protested in front of the house of the businessman who organized the trade.

Jill Phipps Net Worth

Jill Phipps is one of the richest Animal Rights Activist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jill Phipps 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Phipps excelled in school, but she decided to leave at she turned 16 when she began working for the Royal Mail (her father was an officer in the postal service). Phipps was concerned about the welfare of animals as a child and was a part of her mother’s efforts to stop the trade in furs from the age of eleven. After becoming vegetarian Phipps got her whole family to join her. A local protest in Coventry that was backed by Phipps and her mother was successful in closing the local fur store and fur farm. In 1986, along with her sister and mother, Phipps raided the Unilever labs located in Bedfordshire to protest the use of the practice of vivisection. The group was arrested and was prosecuted, with Phipps mother and sister being both given a six-month sentence. Phipps herself was given an indefinite suspension of sentence because she was expecting.

The 1st of February, 1995 Phipps joined a group of protesters who gathered at Coventry Airport in Baginton, protesting against the shipment alive calves from the UK to Amsterdam to be distributed throughout Europe. Ten protesters broke the police lines and tried to bring the lorry an end by sitting on the road or clinging themselves to it . Phipps was crushed under the wheels of the truck; her mortal injuries comprised a fractured spine. Phipps’s death garnered an enormous amount of media attention and was discussed during the time of the questioning by the Prime Minister at the House of Commons.

Jill’s Film, with footage of Phipps, the Coventry live export campaign, the funeral, and interviews with Phipps’ family was produced and shown for the first time at the Jill’s Day 2005 event in Coventry. Memorial events are held by grassroots animal rights groups around 1 February each year.

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Jill Ranked on the list of most popular Animal Rights Activist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Jill Phipps celebrates birthday on January 15 of every year.