Tease wins Crufts amid protest at the NEC

Tease, the Whippet, with owner Yvette Short after she was named Supreme Champion at Crufts 2018 at the NEC in Birmingham tonight.
By The Newsroom
Published 11th Mar 2018, 20:23 BST
Updated 11th Mar 2018, 21:35 BST
Tease, the Whippet, with owner Yvette Short after she was named Supreme Champion during the final day of Crufts 2018 at the NEC in Birmingham.Tease, the Whippet, with owner Yvette Short after she was named Supreme Champion during the final day of Crufts 2018 at the NEC in Birmingham.
Tease, the Whippet, with owner Yvette Short after she was named Supreme Champion during the final day of Crufts 2018 at the NEC in Birmingham.

An intruder in the showring was wrestled to the ground by security officers after the winner was announced.

Nearly 21,000 dogs competed for just seven places in the show’s finale - where each of the individual groups were represented.

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Dog breeders were battling it out over four days for the top prize at the world’s biggest dog show.

An intruder is wrestled to the ground after Tease, the Whippet, was named Supreme Champion during the final day of Crufts 2018 at the NEC in Birmingham.An intruder is wrestled to the ground after Tease, the Whippet, was named Supreme Champion during the final day of Crufts 2018 at the NEC in Birmingham.
An intruder is wrestled to the ground after Tease, the Whippet, was named Supreme Champion during the final day of Crufts 2018 at the NEC in Birmingham.

There were 9,000 people crammed into the NEC Arena in Birmingham to watch the winner be chosen.

Crufts organisers, the Kennel Club, said they could not confirm if it was a protest of some kind and added they are “looking into the incident”.

It happened a day after West Ham United’s security was called into question after a series of pitch invasions and widespread supporter unrest.

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