Still sabbing the bastards
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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