Jon Ablewhite, 36, Kerry Whitburn, 36, John Smith, 39, and Josephine Mayo, 38, all admitted conspiracy charges at hearings at Nottingham Crown Court earlier this year.

David Hall and Partners, who ran a family business at the Darley Oaks Farm in Staffordshire, endured abuse, death threats and firebomb attacks over six years during one of the country's most sustained harassment campaigns by animal rights groups.

In the worst incident, in October 2004, the grave of Gladys Hammond, the mother-in-law of one of the co-owners who had died in 1997 aged 82, was dug up and her remains stolen.

Last week police confirmed they had found Hammond's remains in Staffordshire woodland.

The campaign, from 1999 to 2005, led the family to announce last year they would give up breeding guinea pigs at their farm in Newchurch, Staffordshire, and would return to traditional farming.

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