TWO poachers caught digging into a badger sett have been sentenced to 80 hours’ unpaid community work. James Linsley, 27, of Barnard Castle, and Ian Blakey, 33, of Crook, were spotted disturbing the entrance to the sett at Bolton Grange, Bolton-on-Swale, near Catterick, in March. Northallerton Magistrates Court heard police found the pair with terriers …
Pensioner admits firearms and pesticides possession
A PENSIONER has admitted possessing illegal pesticides and firearms without a certificate on his farm. Allan Armistead, 74, appeared at Furness Magistrates’ Court today (6) charged with a string of offences concerning the illegal storing of pesticides, firearms and ammunition. Armistead pleaded guilty to seven counts of storing a pesticide, which included Strychnine, Cymag, Phosdrin …
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Man charged over Grizedale red kite deaths
A man has been charged in connection with the poisoning and shooting of red kites in south Cumbria. If follows an investigation into a number of incidents near Ulverston involving the birds in the past year. Allan Armistead, 74 from Oxen Park, near Ulverston, will appear at Furness Magistrates' Court on 6 December. He faces …
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Convicted poisoner (gamekeeper) is a member of Scottish Gamekeepers Association
There’ll be some red faces at the SGA today. After all the proclamations of Alex Hogg, Chairman of the Scottish Gamekeepers Association, who is on record as saying, “Professional gamekeepers do not poison raptors” (see here), it turns out that the gamekeeper David Alexander Whitefield, who today was convicted of poisoning four buzzards (see here), …
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Previously convicted gamekeeper guilty again
A previously convicted gamekeeper has today admitted to poisoning four buzzards with Alpha-chloralose laced baits. At Lanark Sheriff Court, David Alexander Whitefield (45) of Coulter, near Biggar in Lanarkshire, pled guilty to the offences that took place between March and November 2009 at Culter Allers Farm, near Biggar, where Whitefield was employed as the sole …
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