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A GAMEKEEPER has been fined after admitting wilfully killing a badger. David Stephen Welford, 43, of Thornthorpe, Malton, was sentenced yesterday at Scarborough Magistrates’ Court following the incident in Laysikes Wood, Menethorpe, last September. He was fined £385 and ordered to pay £100 costs, with a £15 victim surcharge. Jean Thorpe, of Ryedale Badger Group, …
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An illegal animal trap which cut off foxes’ legs was set by a man unhappy the animals had made holes in his fence. Dantai Le, 60, of St Julians Farm Road, West Norwood, pleaded guilty to charges of using and possessing an illegal trap contrary the Pests Act 1954, causing unnecessary suffering, and not protecting …
At Inverness Sheriff Court, a former apprentice gamekeeper was fined £1,500 after he admitted possessing a dead red kite. James Rolfe, 20, who was a gamekeeper at Moy Estate, near Inverness said he found the bird of prey in a trap set for stoats and weasels but picked it up put the bird in a …
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A Norwich man who set up a cockfighting training farm at his parents’ home and ran illegal fights for nearly three years has been banned from keeping animals for five years. A court was yesterday shown a 6-minute video filmed by Trevor Hall showing cockfighting at his parents’ farm in Horsham St Faith, near Norwich. …
An estate worker had enough illegal poison to "wipe out the entire Scottish golden eagle and red kite populations several times over", a court has heard. Gamekeeper Dean Barr, 44, of East Lodge, Clashmore, Dornoch, admitted possessing 10kg of Carbofuran. The insecticide, banned in 2005, was found in a farm building, used by Barr, on …
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Three members of the Hunt Saboteurs Association were yesterday found not-guilty of Aggravated Trespass after a three day trial at Newark Magistrates Court. They had been monitoring the Grove and Rufford Foxhounds, in November last year, to ensure compliance with the Hunting Act. It was suspected that the hunt had been hunting live foxes. At …
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http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/news_shooting//2493// Larsen Traps Viewers of the BBC Countryfileprogramme on Sunday 29 May 2011 will see Animal Aid’s Shooting Consultant, Kit Davidson, being interviewed about a particularly cruel device used by gamekeepers for killing birds – the Larsen Trap. Animal Aid was asked to contribute to a video feature about Songbird Survival, an organisation connected with …
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Showing the violent and threatening nature of members of the Isle of Wight hunt towards hunt monitors, whose video cameras pose a threat to the hunt's existence now hunting with dogs is banned.
Face Book - Please clean it UP!! No animal abuse allowed on your network http://www.change.org/petitions/face-book-please-clean-it-up-no-animal-abuse-allowed-on-your-network There are many groups supporting animal abuse on face book. These groups, mostly dog fighting, have graphic videos, pictures, and are selling and trading pit bulls, and other dogs to fight, some until death. Fighting dogs is illegal in the …
http://news.scotsman.com/environment/Golfer-who-battered-tame-fox.6769510.jp A GOLFER has been fined £750 for battering a tame fox with a golf club after it stole his chocolate biscuit. Donald Forbes, 55, of Riverdale, Burnside Road, Peterculter lashed out at the animal, striking it on the head, after he spotted it rummaging through his golf bag. It was so badly injured it …
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