Vermin Patrol 2010 - Part 1 Badgers On 15/5/09 at Halton magistrates Christopher Syze, of Moorside Court, Widnes, Cheshire, pleaded guilty to interfering with a badger sett. He received a five-month over-night curfew, was banned from keeping dogs for 10 years and ordered to pay £255 costs. Syze was arrested on suspicion of interfering with a …
Vermin Patrol 2009 – Part 2
Badgers A joint Essex Police and Natural England investigation was launched following a report from the North East Essex Badger Group that a badger sett had been interfered with and possibly gassed. The investigation confirmed that a badger sett had been gassed using an Aluminium Phosphide gas generating product. The owner of the land, Richard Butler of …
Vermin Patrol 2009 – Part 1
Badgers Police were alerted by a member of the public when they saw three men trying to interfere with a badger sett, Reedley magistrates were told on 5/2/09. The gang fled and left behind a terrier dog - which was later knocked down by a train and killed. Following a chase officers caught John Paul Fielden of …
Vermin Patrol 2008 – Part 2
Badgers A police officer was arrested for allegedly interfering with a badger sett at the same time his force was targeting the cruel sport of badger baiting. The man has since quit the force and is still being investigated by his former colleagues. A police officer based in Newcastle area command was arrested in February …
Vermin Patrol 2008 – Part 1
Badgers Two members of a badger-baiting ring escaped being locked up on 21/1/08 but were banned from owning dogs for five years. Part-time poultry worker Sean Dodds (17) McLagan Drive, Harwick and Kyle Lawrie (19) Church Lane, Harwick both pleaded guilty to digging at a badger's sett, Dodds also admitted wilfully killing a badger with a dog while at …
Vermin Patrol 2007 – Part 3
Badgers Mark Paddock (37) of Aintree Close, Leegomery, Telford was sentenced to 90 days in prison, suspended for two years, he will also have to observe a night-time curfew and do 200 hours of unpaid community work. He was found guilty on 4/10/07 of illegally hunting and killing a badger at night - with his two …
Vermin Patrol 2007 – Part 2
Badgers On 27/6/06 William Thomson (43) from Dufftown appeared at Elgin Sheriff Court where he pled guilty to three charges of blocking a badger sett. His plea of not guilty to attempting to kill badgers was accepted. Thomson was fined £600 pound on each charge, £1800 in total. On the 4/3/07 A foxhunter was accused of leading …
Vermin Patrol 2007 – Part 1
Badgers On 5/1/07 a Joint police and RSPCA swoop has captured five people on suspicion of digging a badger sett near Stroud. Gloucestershire Constabulary said a 19-year-old, an 18-year-old, two 16-year-olds and a 15-year-old were all from Mountain Ash in South Wales. Police acted after a call from a concerned member of the public. They …
Vermin Patrol 2006 – Part 3
Badgers Five men who deny terrorising a badger sett with dogs, have been banned from taking their dogs more than a mile from their home. The five are also accused of failing to properly treat their injured dogs. They are one of the first groups in Scotland to be charged under the Protection of Badgers …
Vermin Patrol 2006 – Part 2
Badgers Craig Trevelyan (32) of Caer Bryn Road, Pen y Groes, Carmarthenshire appeal against his conviction for illegally digging for badgers in a Gloucestershire forest will take place in September. The hearing, due to take place at Gloucester Crown Court, was adjourned in May 2006 because witnesses for Trevelyan were abroad. The court heard that Trevelyan …