Name – Naisbett Ronald
Address – Earsdon Road, Hall Lane Estate, Houghton-le-Spring
Convicted – 13/6/86
Fine – £300 and £91 costs
Magistrates – Hexham
Age/D.O.B – 36
Also convicted – Colin Agar and David Jones
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 – Napier William
Address – Widdecombe Lane, Clifton Estate, Nottingham
Convicted – 23/12/83
Fine – £500 and £230 costs
Magistrates – Nottingham
Age/D.O.B – 29
Also convicted – Mark Shaw, Brian Cupitt and Andrew Osbourne
Notes – Caught 24/4/83. All found guilty of 24 offences. Shaw and Cupitt were found guilty of injuring a badger, attempting to take a badger, using metal tongues to take a badger, digging for a badger, using a dog to hunt for a badger, cruelty to animals and badger fighting. They were fined £150 on each badger charge, and £50 for each charge of cruelty to a badger. Napier and Osbourne were fined £100 on each of the above charges and £50 on the cruelty charges. A fifth person Mr Brian Burton of Lings Farm, Rempstone was found not guilty of the above and awarded costs of £1000.
Name – Nash David
Address – Markmanor Avenue, Walthamstow
Convicted – 2/10/90
Fine – £700 and £300 costs
Magistrates – Colchester
Age/D.O.B –
Also convicted – Alone
Notes – Found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to a fox which he had trapped down it’s earth. He also received a 10 year ban on animals.
Name – Nash Jeffrey Stanley
Address – Caeglas, Penrhiwfer
Convicted – 31/1/85
Fine – £250 and costs
Magistrates – Haverford
Age/D.O.B – 21
Also convicted – Stephen Palterman, Andrew Thomas, David Bartlett and Jeffrey Leyshon
Notes – They said they were after foxes. Caught July 84. Found guilty of causing suffering to five dogs by keeping them confined in a boot of a car, cruelly ill-treating a badger and procuring or aiding and abetting two dogs to fight. All were defended by Mr Wyn Rees.
Name – Nash Lee
Address – Mancrotf Road, Lawerence Weston
Convicted – Autumn 1994
Fine – £240
Magistrates – ?
Age/D.O.B – 23
Also convicted – Steven Farley, Robert Massey, Julian Vokins and Barry Nicolas
Notes – All found guilty of interfering with a badger sett. They were caught by the RSPCA after a tip-off. All banned from keeping dogs for 2 years.
Name – Nettle Mark Anthony
Address – Tan-y-Coed, Swansea Valley
In court 23/7/86
Not guilty
Magistrates – Ammanford
Age/D.O.B – 23
Also charged – Alan Farthing and Neville Davies
Notes – Nettle and Farthing also cleared of dog fighting
Name – Newall Gary
Address – Popular Road, Lache, Chester
In court 22/2/85
Fine – ?
Magistrates – Wrexham
Age/D.O.B –
Also convicted – Darren Challinor
Notes – Charged with attempting to kill or injure a badger. They were both caught 2/2/85.
Name – Newbury Vincent
Address – Miles Road, Ely, Cardiff
Convicted – 17/6/89
Fine – £400 and £100 costs
Magistrates – Whitland
Age/D.O.B –
Also convicted – Clive Reid-Smith and Richard Jones
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.
Name – Newell Gary
Address – Popular Road, Lache
In court 22/2/85 due to appear again 25/4/85
Fine – ?
Magistrates – Wrexham
Age/D.O.B – 25
Also convicted – Darren Challinor
Notes – Charged with unlawfully attempting to kill, injure or take a badger. Caught 2/2/85. A third man was also charged but failed to appear in court, and a warrant for his arrest was issued.
Name – Newton Christopher
Address – 14 Northumberland Street, Weston Mill, Plymouth
Convicted – 18/1/84
Fine – £800 and £285 costs (for breakdown see Below)
Magistrates – Totnes
Age/D.O.B – 30
Also convicted –
Notes – Stephen Walker defending. Newton was fined £100 on each of four charges of killing, injuring or taking badgers. and a further £100 on each of four charges of cruelly ill-treating badgers. He was acquitted on four charges of using artificial light to take badgers. He had diaries (4 with over 200 pages) and photographs of which he kept records of the foxes, hares, badgers and deer he had hunted with lurcher dogs/terriers over the years.
Name – Newton Christopher
Address – 14 Northumberland Street, Weston Mill, Plymouth or Llewellyn Avenue, Cardiff
Convicted – 9/1/86
Fine – £500 and £200 costs.
Magistrates – Taunton
Age/D.O.B – 35
Also convicted – Paul Murray, Phillip Dann and Christopher Lewis
Notes – Newton was fined £500 because of a previous 8 convictions of badger digging in 1981, and was then fined £1,086. In his own written records seized by police showed that in 1981 alone he had killed 48 foxes, 11 badgers, 13 hares and 2 deer. He had killed 70 badgers altogether at the time of his arrest.
Name – Nicolas Barry William
Address – Lurgan Walk, Knowle
Convicted – Autumn 1994
Fine – £240
Magistrates – ?
Age/D.O.B – 19
Also convicted – Steven Farley, Lee Nash, Robert Massey and Julian Vokins
Notes – All found guilty of interfering with a badger sett. They were caught by the RSPCA after a tip-off. All banned from keeping dogs for 2 years.
Name – Nightingale Paul
Address – 18 Thornfield Avenue, Waterfoot, Rossendale
Convicted – 12/4/90
Fine – £1000 and £250 costs
Magistrates – Kendal
Age/D.O.B – 36
Also convicted – Keith Simpson and Kenneth Place
Notes – Convicted of digging for a badger and ill-treating a dog. Offence took place on 10/9/89.
Name – Nightingale Sean
Address – 4 Ballcarres Road, Ashton, Preston
Convicted – 27/1/90
Fine – £1000 and £250 costs
Magistrates – Market Drayton
Age/D.O.B – 22
Also convicted – Steven Fishwick, Gordon Grimshaw, David Travis and Paul Nightingale
Notes – Found guilty of attempting to dig a badger and digging a badger, also causing unnecessary suffering to dogs. Banned from keeping dogs for 10 years. All the terriers had skin infections. The day after the incident the farmer Mr William Towers said 3 men asked him to sign a piece of paper saying he gave them permission to dig on his land.
Name – Noon Peter
Address – 45 West Avenue, Goldbourne, Wigan
Convicted – 6/8/87
Fine – £200 and £25 costs
Magistrates – Macclesfield
Age/D.O.B – 23
Also convicted – Mark Tempest, John Billington, Thomas Cundliffe and David Boffey
Notes – All found guilty of attempting to take a badger and digging for badgers. They were fined £100 on each charge. Defended by Mr Richard Heap.
Name – Norman John William
Address – Barnes Road, Murton, Durham
Convicted – First in court 22/2/96 then sentenced on 3/9/96
Fine – 2 year conditional discharge
Magistrates – Durham
Age/D.O.B – 23
Also convicted – Kevin Gustard
Notes – Admitted a charge of interfering with a badger sett. Caught 10/9/95 by Mr John Hall, a gamekeeper. Hall kept an eye on the sett after telling the police, he returned three times after the men had left the sett, he could hear a puppy barking from inside the sett. The following day Gustard returned with Norman and the puppy’s mother, who was fitted with a tracking device, he then entered the dog into the sett. Police the swooped and arrested them. Gustard told police he knew it was a badger sett but was trying to get his puppy out. The court was told that Norman had been given a 3 month sentence for an unconnected offence by Peterloo Magistrates on 30/8/96.
Name – Northmoor Jonathan (Whipper-in with Dartmoor Foxhounds)
Address – East Monksmoor, Bittaford, PL21 0HE
Due in court Autumn 1992
Fine -?
Magistrates – Tavistock
Age/D.O.B –
Also charged – Michael Weir, Gary Moore and Paul Williams
Notes – All charged with 2 offences of interfering with a badger sett.
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Name – O’Brian Alan (Postman)
Address – Settle Street, Millom
Convicted – 30/1/83
Fine – £700
Magistrates – Millom
Age/D.O.B – 24
Also convicted – Rarmond Mossop, Stephen Mossop, Michael Crelin and John Turner
Notes – Raymond Mossop held the badger up in the air while his son Stephen hit it with a spade. They were caught when they sent their film to Colourtrend to be developed. Found guilty of digging for badgers.
Name – O’Loughlin Ian
Address – Birmingham
Convicted – 28/2/01 sentenced on 28/2/01
Fine – £150 plus £50 costs
Magistrates – Nuneaton
Age/D.O.B –
Also convicted – Mark Bradley
Notes – On the 28/2/01 at Nuneaton magistrates Ian O’Loughlin and Mark Bradley, both from Birmingham, were found guilty of interfering with a badger sett by entering a dog into it. On 28/3/01 they were sentenced to pay a fine of £150 each plus £50 costs.
Name – Oliver Wayne
Address – Leighton Park, Crewe
Convicted – 3/2/88
Fine – £200 and £20 costs
Magistrates – Crewe
Age/D.O.B – 17
Also convicted – Kevin May
Notes – They were both found guilty of digging for badgers. Both defended by Mr David Sayer. A 14 year old youth was also found guilty of digging for badgers, and will be sentenced at a later date. They all said they were after foxes.
Name – Osbourne Andrew
Address – Woodhouse Avenue, Gotham
Convicted – 23/12/83
Fine – £500 and £230 costs
Magistrates – Nottingham
Age/D.O.B – 22
Also convicted – Mark Shaw, Brian Cupitt and William Napier
Notes – Caught 24/4/83. All found guilty of 24 offences. Shaw and Cupitt were found guilty of injuring a badger, attempting to take a badger, using metal tongues to take a badger, digging for a badger, using a dog to hunt for a badger, cruelty to animals and badger fighting. They were fined £150 on each badger charge, and £50 for each charge of cruelty to a badger. Napier and Osbourne were fined £100 on each of the above charges and £50 on the cruelty charges. A fifth person Mr Brian Burton of Lings Farm, Rempstone was found not guilty of the above and awarded costs of £1000.
Name – Osbourne Steve and Mike
Address – 27 Oxcliffe, Barrowcliff, Scarborough
In court 22/12/94
Not guilty
Magistrates – Scarborough
Age/D.O.B – 29 and 31
Also charged – Ian Hawkins, Alan and Terry Watts and Brian Rhodes
Notes – The six were cleared of badger related offences. All defended by Harry Topham, they had Barry Peachey as a witness. See Countryman’s Weekly 24/11/95, page 14.
Name – Owen Nigel (Hospital assistant)
Address – Greenmoor Avenue, Lofthouse, Wakefield
Convicted – 25/8/87
Fine -£300 and £15 costs
Magistrates – Wetherby
Age/D.O.B – 24
Also convicted – Wayne Davies, Andrew Greyston and Mark Eyles
Notes – Wayne Davies has a conviction for badger digging already from 1984. The sett remained undisturbed until January when some digging took place, then on 8/3/87 their van was seen in the area. The following Sunday the farmer and police lay in wait from 6.45 am. Two hours later the van arrived, the police then waited a bit then found the four digging at the sett. Caught 15/3/87. All found guilty of trying to kill, injure or take badgers. A charge of digging for badgers was withdrawn by the prosecution. Mr Paul Fitzpatrick defended Davies and Mr David Cahill defended the other three.
Name – Owens Lawrence
Address – 16 Station Terrace, Washington
Convicted – 6/3/86
Fine – £150 and £26.80 costs
Magistrates – Derwentside
Age/D.O.B – 24
Also convicted – Shaun Butler
Notes – Caught 12/12/85. Found guilty of attempting to kill, injure or take a badger. Both defended by Mr Terry Robson
Name – Owens Martin Peter
Address – Horn Drive, West Belfast
Convicted – Spring 1991
Fine – £120
Magistrates – Belfast
Age/D.O.B – Born 1973
Also convicted – Sean Price, John Shannon and James McNally
Notes – All found guilty of cruelty to a fox which they then bagged, before it was set upon by seven dogs. All banned from keeping dogs for 2 years.