Still sabbing the bastards
Four people have admitted illegal hunting in Sussex. The men were caught hare-coursing, at Angmering Park, on the South Downs in February. Thomas Joseph Connors, 31, from Wallington, Surrey; Edward Mark Connors, 40, from Horley, Surrey; James O’Brien, 38, from Westerham, Kent and James Robb, 24, from Stanmore, Middlesex, used dogs to hunt wild hares …
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TWO land owners have been found guilty of hare coursing following a two-day trial during which the effectiveness of the Hunting Act was questioned. Former racehorse trainer Peter Easterby, 79, and Major John Shaw, 56, were convicted at Scarborough Magistrates' Court of attending and allowing their land to be used for hare coursing events in …
The number of Irish hares in Northern Ireland almost halved because people are flaunting the law banning its hunting, a pressure group claimed today. The League Against Cruel Sports called for a permanent prohibition to be put in place after the population dropped to 98 this year. This is the lowest recording since measures were …
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It was the sound of dogs barking and whimpering that first attracted PC Paul Foster to the back of an old kitchen showroom in inner city Birmingham. As he got closer he heard voices and men cheering. What police found in Alum Rock a mainly Pakistani inner-city suburb, was an unexpected and disturbing crime scene. …
Three men were arrested yesterday in a joint police and RSPCA operation targeting organised dog fighting in Bradford. The RSPCA’s Special Operations Unit, backed up by uniformed inspectors and West Yorkshire Police, carried out a number of raids across the city. One man was arrested for questioning on suspicion of possessing dog fighting paraphernalia, under …
One of the most high profile members of Britain's aviculture community has been given a 16-week suspended prison sentence, a curfew between 9pm and 6am and ordered to pay £750 in costs after he admitted illegally keeping one of the UK’s rarest wild birds at his Yorkshire home. Sean Fitzpatrick – a former chairman and …
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Badger News (Spring 2009) A terrierman and whipper-in for the South Dorset Hunt is to go before Bournemouth magistrates twice in July. In each of two cases Christopher Leadbeater will face charges of interfering with different badger setts in March and November last year. Sue Old of the Dorset Badger Group is to be a …
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Legal action against hunt saboteurs by the Crawley & Horsham hunt and 80 landowners has been shelved a year after it was launched, with probable costs of £100,000 to hunting and little gained. Funds for the test case were procured from the Countryside Alliance (CA) and Masters of Foxhounds Association (MFHA), with around £20,000 from …
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A CASE at Dumfries Sheriff Court in which a 58-year-old man has been accused of snaring and beating to death six badgers, has been continued for a week to allow further discussions between his solicitors and the procurator fiscal. Anthony Rogers, of Breconside Farm, Moffat, has pleaded not guilty to a total of nine charges …
CALLS to scrap plans to bring wildfowl shooting back to the Teifi estuary are being made by many organisations and individuals. A consultation meeting with the British Association of Shooting and Conservation, which wants the right to shoot ducks and geese between Patch and Old Castle Farm, ended with an overwhelming vote to abandon the …