Address – Stamford Road, Blacon, Chester
Convicted – 4/11/77
Fine – £15
Magistrates – Chester
Age/D.O.B – 18
Also convicted – Edward Dry and Robert Britnall
Notes – Found guilty of digging for badgers and two offences of not having a dog licence.
Name – Jackson Trevor
Address – Cadeby Avenue, Conisborough
Convicted – 30/7/84
Fine – £150 and £135 costs
Magistrates – Chesterfield
Age/D.O.B – 24
Also convicted – John Bradder, Terence Calladine and David Walker
Notes – They all said they were after foxes. All found guilty of attempting to take a badger, accept David Walker who pleaded guilty, so only £20 costs.
Name – James Brian Jon
Address – Tuberville Street, Maesteg
Convicted – Spring 1995
Fine – ?
Magistrates – Tenby
Age/D.O.B – 23
Also convicted – John Hill, Andrew Mullahy and Paul Brian
Notes – All pleaded guilty to digging for badgers.
Name – James John Rees
Address – Cheviot Close, Tynewydd Park, Risca
Convicted – June 1986
Fine – ?
Magistrates – Warminster
Age/D.O.B –
Also convicted – Alone
Notes –
Name – James Michael (porcelain worker)
Address – Himberleton Road, St John’s, Worcester
Convicted – 4/3/88
Fine – £200 and £40 costs
Magistrates – Worcester
Age/D.O.B – 21
Also convicted – Melvyn Thomkins, Adrian Yoemans and Steven George
Notes – Caught 29/7/87. All found guilty of trying to take a badger. Mr Joe Kieran defended all four.
Name – Jenkins Carl Spencer (roof tiler)
Address – Thompson Villa, Ynysybwl
Convicted – 86/87 and appealed 11/6/87
Fine – £150 and £100 costs and £124 costs at the appeal
Magistrates – Pontypridd and Cardiff Crown Court
Age/D.O.B – 26
Also convicted – Terrance Williams
Notes – Both defended by Richard Griffiths.
Name – Johnson Alan
Address – New Road North, Hainault
Convicted – 16/11/88
Fine – £400 and £20 costs
Magistrates – Rochford
Age/D.O.B – 21
Also convicted – Michael Dean and Martin Mackay
Notes – Claimed they were looking for foxes. Found guilty of attempting to kill, injure or take a badger. Dean and Johnson were also convicted of cruelty to their dogs, they were banned from keeping dogs for 5 years.
Name – Johnson Ian
Address – 92 Lundy Road, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent
Convicted – 12/10/90
Fine – £200
Magistrates – Crewe
Age/D.O.B – 22
Also convicted – Gareth Williams and Paul Anderson
Notes – Claimed they were out hunting foxes. They dug a 8ft hole down into the badger sett. Found guilty of digging for badgers. Caught December 1989. They had been given permission to dig for foxes at a farm.
Name – Johnston Philip Charles
Address – Sparrowmire Lane, Kendal
In court 3/10/92
Not guilty
Magistrates – Appleby
Age/D.O.B – 21
Also charged – Alone
Notes – Found not guilty of interfering with a badger sett. Two other people were arrested at the sett Craig Lowther and Tony Martindale both from Kendal. They said they were out driving when they decided to go and get some rabbits. Defended by Mr Malcolm Dutchman-Smith.
Name – Jones David
Address – Co-Operative Terrace, New Brancepeth
Convicted – 13/6/86
Fine – £300 and £91 costs
Magistrates – Hexham
Age/D.O.B – 33
Also convicted – Ronald Naisbett and Colin Agar
Notes – They said they were after foxes. Found guilty of digging for badgers. Caught 8/9/85. They pleaded not guilty to injuring a badger and the charge was dismissed. Mr Norman Laidman defended all three.
Name Jones Gethin (Terrierman with the Vale of Clettwr)
Address – Gardde, Cwmdwyfran
In court 14/4/00
Found not guilty
Magistrates – Lampeter
Age/D.O.B – 46
Also charged – David Lyn Lloyd, John Geraint Owen Thomas and John Gareth Jones
Notes – The master and three other members of the Vale of Clettwr Hunt have been cleared of interfering with a badger sett by destroying it. Hunt master David Lyn Lloyd, John Geraint Owen Thomas, Gethin Jones and John Gareth Jones had encroached without permission on to forestry land. Gethin Jones who said he had 30 years’ experience as terrierman, dismissed a prosecution suggestion that he had disturbed an active badger’s sett and said he had walked around the area and had not seen any signs of setts. John Geraint Thomas said, “I have been a terrierman for over 30 years and there is no doubt in my mind that this was not a badger’s sett. I know there are active setts in the area but we couldn’t see these from where we were.”
Name – Jones John Gareth (Foot follower with the Vale of Clettwr)
Address – Golygfa, Heol Gilfachwen, Llandysul
In court 14//00
Found not guilty
Magistrates – Lampeter
Age/D.O.B – 64
Also charged – David Lyn Lloyd, John Geraint Owen Thomas and Gethin Jones
Notes – The master and three other members of the Vale of Clettwr Hunt have been cleared of interfering with a badger sett by destroying it. Hunt master David Lyn Lloyd, John Geraint Owen Thomas, Gethin Jones and John Gareth Jones had encroached without permission on to forestry land. Gethin Jones who said he had 30 years’ experience as terrierman, dismissed a prosecution suggestion that he had disturbed an active badger’s sett and said he had walked around the area and had not seen any signs of setts. John Geraint Thomas said, “I have been a terrierman for over 30 years and there is no doubt in my mind that this was not a badger’s sett. I know there are active setts in the area but we couldn’t see these from where we were.”
Name – Jones Richard John (Mechanic)
Address – Heol Bury, Gwaelog-y-Garth, Taffs Wells
Convicted – 17/6/89
Fine – £400 and £100 costs
Magistrates – Whitland
Age/D.O.B –
Also convicted – Clive Reid-Smith and Vincent Newbury.
Notes – Caught 6/11/88. Gang was infiltrated by two undercover investigators. Found guilty of digging for a badger. Graham Walters was defending all three.
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Name – Kelsey Tony
Address – 11 Healey Close, Northern Moor, Manchester
Convicted – 15/9/94
Fine – £100
Magistrates – Manchester
Age/D.O.B –
Also convicted – Anthony Stone
Notes – There is a video which shows that the fox had it’s feet strapped together with leather straps. The RSPCA confiscated the dogs, but a charge of cruelty to the dogs failed, and the dogs had to be returned. Found guilty of causing damage to the river bank. It seems that Paul Hale, see clipping said that he was just passing and he came across the two defendants but did not know them. He saw no cruelty just two people trying to rescue their dog. Both defended by DR R. Rooley from Huddersfield. Witnesses – Steve Voysey, Anthony Wood, Barry Peachey and Paul Hale.
Name – Kellie Andrew
Address – St Ambrose Court, Netherton, Liverpool
Convicted – 28/8/87
Fine – £500 and £73 costs
Magistrates – Flint
Age/D.O.B – 24
Also convicted – Steven Movat, Francis Guatella and Robert Gilmore
Notes – They said they were after foxes. All found guilty of digging for a badgers
Name – Kendrick Stephen
Address – St Oswald Lane, Liverpool
In court 12/12/82
Not guilty
Magistrates – Wirral
Age/D.O.B – 25
Also charged – Peter Dobbs and Stephen Movat
Notes – All found not guilty of unlawfully attempting to take a badger. Caught August 1982. However a charge of causing £70 damage to Royden Park was proved and they were fined £35 each. They said they were hunting foxes and had killed over 400 in the last few years. Movat also has a conviction for other badger offences.
Name – Kingham Sean Christopher
Address – 111 Ramney Drive, Enfield Lock
Convicted – 2/6/87
Fine – £200 and costs
Magistrates – Epping
Age/D.O.B – 23/9/69
Also convicted – Jason Broderick and James Tomlin
Notes – Caught 7/2/87. Found guilty of attempting to kill, injure or take a badger. Anthony Beaumont of 14 Ramney Drive, Enfield Lock was discharged , being 15 years old, it appears he was unaware of what was going on.
Name – Kneal John Charles
Address – Westminster Drive, Brombrough, Wirral
In court 31/10/97
Found not guilty
Magistrates – Northwich
Age/D.O.B – 58
Also caught – Peter Edge
Notes – Both walked free from Northwich magistrates on 31/10/97 after magistrates decided there was no case to answer over allegations of badger digging. Both were charged with disturbing a badger sett and causing a dog to enter a badger sett at High Billinge near Tarporley after the Cheshire Foxhounds had passed over the land earlier the same day in February 1997. The farmer who owned the land said “I was approached by Kneale, he said a fox had run to ground during the hunt and would it be all right to dig it out. I gave him permission. I didn’t know they were going near where the badger sett.” They were then seen digging at the sett by forest workers, who then rang a badger protection group to report them.
Name – Knight Graham
Address – Macmillan Road, Southbank, Middlesborough
Convicted – 14/4/90
Fine – £500 and £69 costs
Magistrates – Guisborough
Age/D.O.B – 24
Also convicted – Alone
Notes – Caught 3/12/89
Name – Krasowski Bernard
Address – ?
Convicted – 1980
Fine – ?
Magistrates – Rochdale
Age/D.O.B – Born 1961
Also convicted – William Royston and Ian Wild
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