Thousands were left fuming with the Crown Prosecution Court’s decision not to prosecute a huntsman after he charged down a saboteur leaving her with life-threatening injuries.

Nid, a hunt saboteur who declined to share her full name for fear of reprisals, was left with seven broken ribs, a collapsed lung and a shoulder injury when Mark Doggrell’s horse mowed her down.

Despite footage that showed Blackmoor and Sparkford Vale Hunt member not even slowing down when riding past anti-hunt protesters, the case was dropped.

The CPS is now giving it a second look as a petition launched to reverse the decision reached 4,000 signatures yesterday.

“I’m completely devastated, disappointed,” the Hampshire activist told the Star.

“I feel extremely let down by the justice system.”

Nid, who has been involved with animal rights since the 2013 badger cull, had taken a day of annual leave to take part in protests at a cubbing meet.

These events are organised to train new hunting dogs and are, according to campaigners, particularly brutal as “hounds can be seen tearing fox cubs to pieces.”

Nid argued Mr Doggrell and other huntsmen were being particularly violent that day because upsetting the event would mean disrupting the rest of the season.

An ambulance was called straight after the sab was run down but took longer to arrive because members of the hunt were blocking the road.

Nid believed that this and other hostile and aggressive acts by the hunting party show how “inhumane” hunters can be.

She said: “It’s really important that we get justice from this because if we don’t it sends a clear message out to hunters that they can use violence against saboteurs.

“It’s an enshrined right of ours to protest, we are allowed to do that in this country and we should be allowed to do it without the fear of violence and reprisals.”

The attack, which took place in Dorset last August, has left Nid with lifelong lesions.

Yet the health worker was adamant the incident would not stop her.

“If anything this attack and the lack of justice just galvanised us, so I will be out there when I’m physically better.”