"Emma Smart stated, 'They call it criminal damage. I call it a crustacean jailbreak. This actually felt good at the time. A small, spontaneous, act of kindness.'"
"'What followed was a bizarre witch hunt,' Smart wrote, detailing her experience of being raided by police and held in custody for 12 hours."
Emma Smart, a marine biologist and activist, took a crayfish from a restaurant and threw it into the ocean, viewing it as an act of kindness. She faced prosecution for criminal damage and described the court proceedings as a witch hunt. Smart claimed she was subjected to a humiliating search and held in custody for 12 hours. She expressed that her actions were a small victory against environmental degradation and a response to her mental health struggles at the time.
Read at www.independent.co.uk
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