Robin Foyd, Lennox Foyd, Kenneth Luxton And Irene Luxton were each fined £100 for affray after they attacked a L.A.C.S. monitor who was trying to film a kill. When 40 police and RSPCA officers stormed the shed a Belvedere they found 15 men and a 16 year old youth watching two birds fighting. Four other birds …
Convicted Terrier/Lurchermen
Bernard Perry of Green Avenue, Little Hulton, Salford and David Worrall of Willdale Close, Clayton, Manchester have admitted interfering with a badger sett and causing unnecessary suffering to a dog. Leek magistrates heard about two men acting suspiciously around a badger sett. One appeared to be digging in an entrance hole and he heard dogs barking. When they …
Convicted Gamekeepers
Cliffard Larter, a gamekeeper, found guilty of assault on a Notts sab and causing ABH. The sab's nose was broken and more serious injury was only prevented by the intervention of two other saboteurs. Fined £200 and £75 costs. Gamekeeper Antonio Cussato (35) of Herbert Avenue, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire was found guilty on 19/6/96 by Wrexham magistrates …
Convicted Hunt Supporters
Ian Randell, the son of The Badsworth Foxhounds huntsman, was convicted of actual bodily harm to a Sheffield sab. Supporter of the Enfield Chase Foxhounds, George Adair convicted of criminal damage to a sab vehicle and ordered to pay a £100 fine and £60 costs. On a charge of assault on sabs the jury were unable to come …
Badger Baiters are SCUM
Living in social groups, badgers make their homes in a series of tunnels and chambers known as setts. Their diet consist mainly of earthworms, but the omnivorous badger will also take mice, rabbits, voles and small insects. Being largely nocturnal, food is gathered at night. Badgers are territorial and prefer well-drained areas, often on the …
Badger Baiters – XYZ
Name - Yafano Les Address - 2 Vine Street, Middlesborough Convicted - Autumn 1992 Fine - £500 Magistrates - Teesside Age/D.O.B - 20 Also convicted - John Haytey Notes - Yafano has a previous conviction for skinning cats. Both pleaded guilty to attempting to kill or injure a badger. Name - Yates Angela Address - …
Badger Baiters – U-V-W
Name - Underhill Richard Address - Abbey Lane, Southham, near Banbury Convicted - 11/9/97 and appealed on 12/1/98 Fine - 60 days Magistrates - Banbury then Oxford Crown Court Age/D.O.B - 38 Also convicted - David Clark Notes - Banbury magistrates took only one hour to find them both guilty and gave them 60 day …
Badger Baiters – T
Name - Tailby Wayne Address - 16 Roecar Close, Old Whittington, Chesterfield Convicted - 13/11/87 Fine - £100 and £20 costs see below Magistrates - Renishaw Age/D.O.B - 22 Also convicted - Mark Holtom and Robert Thompson Notes - All three had badger digging charges dropped. They said they were after rabbits. Tailby pleaded guilty …
Badger Baiters – S
Name - Sanderson Ronny Address - Halifax Convicted - ? Fine - £100 and £750 costs Magistrates - ? Age/D.O.B - Also convicted - Alone Notes - Found guilty of possession of badger parts under the Badgers Act and for possession of a tawny owl under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. Magistrates heard how Sanderson …
Badger Baiters – R
Name - Rawlings Stephen Address - Bruntleigh Avenue, Latchford, Warrington Due to appear in court 26/9/87 Fine - ? Magistrates - Warrington Age/D.O.B - 23 Also charged - John Brocklehurst, Peter Daley and Allen Harrison Notes - Charged with attempting to kill, injure or take a badger. Name - Raymont Stephen John Address - David …