Month: March 2016

30 March 2016 Damning new video evidence suggests Scotland’s hunts are still trying to pull the wool over our eyes - Police in the Scottish Borders have arrested and charged two men from the Jed Forest Hunt with illegal hunting after viewing shocking new video footage filmed by the League Against Cruel Sports Scotland. The …

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24 March 2016 A Tayside man caught hare coursing has been jailed for four months for taking part in the illegal bloodsport. Mark Reid, 45, Teviotdale Avenue, Dundee, was also banned from owning a dog for six years when sentenced at Perth Sheriff Court on Wednesday. Sheriff Lindsay Foulis heard that Reid, who was found …

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16/03/2016 John O'Reilly (48), of Rathielty, Rathmoyle, Co Kilkenny, was fined €2,250 having pleaded guilty to the assault of brothers, Hubert and Norman Daniels at Rathielty on November 5, 2013. Defence counsel Elaine Morgan told Kilkenny District Court yesterday there was a fractious history between farmers and the two complainants which, she said, was borne …

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A man accused of dogfighting offences told animal welfare officers the terriers enjoyed it and one "was still wagging its tail as it died". Tony Barbara, 51, was arrested after the Scottish SPCA raided his home in Newmilns, East Ayrshire, and found two injured pit bulls and gear linked to the underground activity. Inspector Hannah …

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A BRADFORD man has appeared in court charged with illegally hunting deer and badgers and training a dog for fighting another animal. Ben Wilson, 26, appeared before Bradford and Keighley Magistrates' Court yesterday in connection with 13 animal welfare charges in a prosecution brought by the RSPCA charity. Wilson, formerly of Sunbridge Road, Bradford, and …

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15 March 2016 FURIOUS animal welfare chiefs have hit out at the Crown Office after it dropped the case against a gamekeeper accused of killing animals with cruel snare traps. The gamekeeper was due to stand trial after “harrowing” footage was supplied showing a fox trapped in a snare which had died of dehydration. A …

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Hunt Saboteurs Association News Release 13th March 2016 The Notorious Old Surrey, Burstow and West Kent fox hunt killed a fox at the last meet of their season yesterday. The hunt met at the Landhurst Estate and the neighbouring Culver Farm, Hartfield, just east of East Grinstead, Sussex and were being monitored by local hunt …

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12 March 2016 Two members of staff from the UK’s leading anti-hunting campaigning organisation have today been seriously assaulted and robbed of their cameras while monitoring Leicestershire’s Belvoir Hunt. The two League Against Cruel Sports employees were attacked by a gang of hunt followers, some of which were on quad bikes and wore masks. Having …

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7 March 2016 A LEDBURY motorist said he was left 'appalled' by the attitude of the North Ledbury Hunt, after his car was involved in a collision with a fox hound on a public road. The incident caused £1,200 worth of damage to his four year old Range Rover. Carl Bufton said he was travelling …

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