On 14 July 95, Phoenix Aviation went into liquidation after running up debts of more than £1 million. Christopher Barrett Jolley, boss of Phoenix Aviation, had suspended flights back on 4 May due to "routine maintenance" but they had never restarted.

Barrett Jolley said, "Although the company is owed alot more money than it owes, the situation with the animal flights has become impossible, absolutely impossible to continue."

Police chiefs breathed a huge sigh of relief at the news. Financing the huge police operation at Coventry Airport had cost in excess of £500,000 in the 8 months since veal flights started. Hundreds of officers including mounted police had been on constant standby and more than 300 arrests were made.

Midland campaigners met outside the airport gates the next morning where they held a party(which lasted the rest of the day) but pledged to fight on for the end of all live exports.

One longer term positive outcome of the campaign was that many Protestors sued the Police for wrongful arrests ... the Police often took the stance that someone was probably going to do something in the future and so they arrested them before they did ... which as you might guess ... is not actually lawful.

Nearly everyone who sued won their cases and recieved thousands of pounds in compensation. Many people including one black activist who was continually targetted in a blatant show of racism ... had multiple victories.

This sweet justice also had a wider effect because much of this money was ploughed back into campaigning ... so it's a big thanks to Warwickshire and West Midlands Police for bankrolling the Animal Rights Movement :-)

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