Badgers A soldier was put behind bars for six months on 3/2/06 for badger baiting. Craig Trevelyan (32) of Caer Bryn Road, Pen y Groes, Carmarthenshire who is a sergeant with the Royal Welch Fusiliers, was found guilty of three charges when he appeared before magistrates at Coleford on 3/2/06. Trevelyan denied the charges of willfully killing …
Vermin Patrol 2004 – Part 3
Badgers On 13/9/04 three men were given a lifetime ban from keeping dogs and each ordered to pay £1000 in costs after pleading guilty to disturbing a badger sett. Wayne Robert Hitchcock Senior (45) Wayne Robert Hitchcock Junior (21) both from Norwich Street, Derby and Ian William Hartley (29) of Thurlow Court, Oakwood, Derby, admitted the charge at an earlier hearing …
Vermin Patrol 2004 – Part 2
Badgers On 31/3/04 Leslie Fowell (34) of St Paul's Road, Rock Ferry appeared before Wirral magistrates charged with eight offences under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992. The charges include willfully injuring badgers and cruelly ill-treating badgers. The badger offences are alleged to have taken place in Flintshire. Fowell is also charged with possession of an offensive …
Vermin Patrol 2004 – Part 1
Badgers John Threlkeld (37) of Low Scales, Renwick, near Penrith, appeared before Eden magistrates on 19/1/04 charged with killing two badgers. Threlkeld pleaded not guilty to both offences. He also denied setting a snare to cause injury to a scheduled wild animal. The cases were adjourned to fix a trial date. On 31/3/04 Leslie Fowell (34) appeared before …
Vermin Patrol 2003 – Part 3
Badgers On 25/9/03 Edward `Danny' Phillips (58) of Broadstone Terrace, Catbrook, near Tintern - a terrier man with the Curre and Llangybi Foxhounds appeared before Abergavenny magistrates. Phillips denies a charge of wilfully interfering with a badger sett by digging it up. A hunt saboteur told magistrates he and two others had been following the hunt for about four …
Vermin Patrol 2003 – Part 2
Badgers Three men were arrested in connection with badger baiting at Teesside Retail Park on 7/5/03. The three local men were arrested and then released on police bail after being caught allegedly setting dogs down badger holes. On 29/5/03 Edward Daniel Phillips of Catbrook, Monmouthshire, will appeared before Newport magistrates. He was charged with interfering with a …
Vermin Patrol 2003 – Part 1
Badgers A deliberate attack on a badger sett during the badger's breeding season has earned a £2,000 fine for the woman responsible. With the assistance of workmen, Patricia Cohen of 83 Cromwell Road, Kingston Upon Thames, cut down a number of trees and filled in several entrances to a badger sett, which was in the garden of …
Vermin Patrol 2002 – Part 4
Badgers Animal activists used an infra-red triggered camera disguised as a twig to try to catch a man blocking a badger sett, a magistrates heard. Members of the League against Cruel Sports used the equipment to record Francis Phillips (65) of Thirlmere Road, Barrow upon Soar at a badger sett. Phillips who is an earth stopper for the …
Vermin Patrol 2002 – Part 3
Badgers Three men accused of hunting badgers with dogs lied under oath in a tale concocted to protect themselves Wallasey magistrates heard on 12/7/02. Stephen Baker (38) of Overpool Road, Ellesmere Port, Stephen Butler (30) of Cedar Gardens, Queensferry, and Stephen Fowell (30) of Whitfield Street, Tranmere are accused of badger digging on farmland in Pensby. Prosecutors alleged they fled the …
Vermin Patrol 2002 – Part 2
Badgers On 3/4/02 a hunt leader in the New Forest denied that a badger sett was damaged by terrier men. The New Forest Hounds (NFH) have hit back at allegations made by the New Forest Animal Protection Group (NFAPG) after a kill near Ringwood. Campaigners claim a fox dived down a sett and "suffered four hours of …