Saboteur ‘Nid’, inset, says the huntsman deliberately rode at her

HUNT saboteurs have released video footage of the moment a female protester was seriously injured by a horse ridden by a huntsman and have criticised the Crown Prosecution Service for not prosecuting him.

The 43-year-old woman was knocked to the ground and suffered broken ribs and a collapsed lung in the incident at Charlton Horethorne, near Yeovil in Somerset, in August.

The woman, a medical professional from Hampshire, said she had been told she was “extremely lucky not to have been paralysed or killed”.

The footage appears to show that the horseman did not stop to help her. He was arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm but was not prosecuted.

The CPS said: “There was insufficient evidence that the incident could have been