A man described key player in a major dog-fighting scene has been sentenced to four months in jail and banned from keeping dogs for life. Barkat Hussain, 44, from Unett Street, Smethwick, West Midlands, trained pit-bull terriers for fighting and kept related medical supplies. He admitted keeping and training pit-bulls dogs in breach of a …
‘Killer’ badger diggers targeted
The RSPCA has said it will continue to gather evidence and prosecute men who dig out badgers and kill them. It follows the convictions last week of two men for badger digging and other offences. They will be sentenced next month by magistrates at Shrewsbury. An RSPCA inspector secretly filmed the men, from Lancashire and …
Two men found guilty of badger digging
Two men have been found guilty of badger digging* after they were caught in the act by an undercover RSPCA inspector. Gerard Monk and Paul Billington were filmed digging a badger sett in woodland at Sandford near Whitchurch on 11 May last year. They fled the scene after realising they had been watched. Both men …