Activists on hunt for HLS backers

ANIMAL rights activists hunting for the new backer of controversial drug-testing company Huntingdon Life Sciences believe it is hiding behind the tough privacy laws of the Cayman Islands.

A spokesman for the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty campaign said: 'We are confident that within weeks we will have the identity.'

Meanwhile, they will keep up their campaign against Stephens, the US investment bank that has said it is severing its links with HLS.

The activists say they want to make sure it has done so.