A MERSEYSIDE animal welfare campaigner was back home on Merseyside last night after being attacked during a protest march in Spain.

Tony Moore, from Southport, told how he was jeered and showered with plastic cups and bottles.

The terrifying attack happened in the Spanish town where his late wife, Vicki, was gored by a bull she was trying to save more than a decade ago.

Mr Moore, 75, and new partner Matilda Mench, 47, felt the wrath of the crowd on Saturday when they led a protest at the bull-running fiesta in Coria, near the Portuguese frontier, in western Spain.

His late wife led a campaign to have it stopped in the 1990s.

Vicki Moore spent weeks close to death after the goring in June, 1995, at Coria.

She was filming as the bull ran through the streets for two hours as darts were blown into its sides.

But the bull turned on her and attacked her.

Vicki devoted more than 20 years of her life campaigning against the ill-treatment of animals at fiestas in Spain and elsewhere in Europe after she and husband Tony founded international movement Fight Against Animal Cruelty in Europe – FAACE.

She died of cancer in 2000 after being credited with putting a stop to many cruelties at traditional festivals.

But the blood still runs every June at Coria.