Jurors have been shown “frightening” footage of animal rights demonstrations across Europe and the UK.

Last Tuesday Winchester Crown Court was told that Heather Nicholson, of Pond Croft, Yateley and Daniel Wadham, formerly of Pond Croft, Yateley took part in a protest an the BASF Fujisawa offices in Gothermberg, Sweden in September 2005.

Footage played to the jury, of seven men and five women, showed the defendants running and shouting in the foyer of the office block.

Wadham, 21, filmed the protest on a video camera, the court heard.

The jury was told he is heard shouting: “We know where you live you scum” and “your responsible” to members of staff.

The protests were allegedly organised and carried out for the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) group.

Nicholson, 41, and Wadham are two of five people allegedly part of SHAC who are charged with conspiracy to blackmail.

They, along with three others – Gerrah Selby, formerly of Aldershot Road, Church Crookahm, Gavin Medd-Hall, from Croydon and Trevor Holmes, from Crawley – deny conspiring together between November 15 2001 and May 2 2007 to blackmail companies they believed to be associates of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS).

The prosecution claims that SHAC’s sole aim is to shut down HLS by targeting associated companies and blackmailing them to stop doing business with the animal testing lab.

Once a company has been named as an HLS associate they are subject to “direct action” which could include protests like the one seen on the footage, the court was told.

During the video the jury saw protestors carrying placards and blowing whistles.

The protest was described by one woman as “extremely distressing”, prosecutor Micheal Bowes QC said.

When the clip had finished he told the jury: “It hardly needs me to describe how terrifying that was.”

The jury was shown footage of the group of protestors outside the offices shouting and swearing through a megaphone.

Loud hailers, air horns and air raid sirens were all used during the demonstration, the jury heard.

Wadham could be heard shouting, “shame on you scum” and “do you think it’s funny?” to BASF Fujisawa employees.

Mr Bowes told the jury: “On any of the footage you will not see anyone that thought it was remotely funny.”

Nicholson and Wadham were arrested by Swedish police but were released without charge, the court heard.

During the hearing the jury was shown a video clip of Selby taking part in a demonstration in Paris in April last year.

The court heard that Selby, and other animal rights activists, targeted three companies linked with HLS.

The New York Stock Exchange, Penauille Servisair and Bristol Myres Squibb, were all targeted in the French capital, the jury heard.

Selby, who allegedly joined SHAC in 2006 when she was living in Church Crookham, could be seen screaming “close down HLS” through a megaphone.

At one point the 20-year-old was on the roof of Penauille Servisair, the video showed.

She could also been seen holding SHAC placard shouting “shame on you puppy killer”.

Mr Bowes told the jury that people are entailed to have strong views but said the activities of SHAC were not that of lawful protests.

The trial continues.