Badgers Two hunt employees accused of interfering with badger setts by the RSPCA have had the case against them dismissed. Gary Edwards who lives on the Milton Estate, near Bretton, Peterborough and Cyril Smith Oakham, near Stamford both work as terriermen for the Fitzwilliam Hunt, had been accused of illegally blocking the holes or damaging a sett. But on 29/10/01 …
Vermin Patrol 2001 – Part 4
Bloodsports A huntsman was cleared of assaulting a hunt saboteur who grabbed a fox to protect it from hounds. John Hazeltine (32) of the East Devon Hunt was acquitted at Exeter magistrates court on 20/11/01 of attacking a hunt saboteur during a meeting of the hunt at Crammer Barton, near Cullompton. The saboteur told the court that …
Vermin Patrol 2001 – Part 3
Dog Fighting The lawyer for a man accused in an alleged dog-fighting ring has asked the charges be thrown out because the investigating officer lost his notes. The lawyer for Kevin Monster (28) who is on trial for four charges of cruelty to animals, argued in Ontario Court of Justice that without the officer's notes, it's impossible …
Vermin Patrol 2001 – Part 2
Badgers A man watched in horror as he saw a badger being dragged from its sett and beaten with a spade, a court heard. The animal was being pulled by a rope from its den in Doynton, near Yate, surrounded by five terrier dogs which were snapping and biting at it. The man was alerted …
Vermin Patrol 2001 – Part 1
Bloodsports At West Somerset magistrates on 12/5/00 Anthony Richard Wright, a huntsman of Exmoor Foxhounds pleaded guilty to an offence under the Specified Risk Material Order 1997 of feeding to hounds parts of a bovine carcase which contained SRM. Wright, who has been cautioned for a similar offence in September 1997, was fined £500 and ordered to pay …
Vermin Patrol 2005 – Part 3
Badgers A gamekeeper convicted of deliberately snaring and killing a badger has been fined £1,200 but will not lose his job. Steven Harmson (47) of Hillhead of Findrack, Torphins, was found guilty of two offences under the Wildlife and Countryside Act and was fined for the offences at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on 19/12/05 but he will still keep his …
Vermin Patrol 2005 – Part 2
Badgers Four men pleaded guilty to ransacking the sett with five terriers and causing the dogs unnecessary suffering. Robert Wenham (23) Edward Murphy (21) Jimmy Eastwood (21) and William Dennard (19) appeared at Sevenoaks magistrates on 25/5/05. Wenham, Murphy and Eastwood all live in Darenth Wood Road, Dartford, while Dennard lives in Mill Road, Dartford. Each was given a 30-month conditional discharge, ordered …
Vermin Patrol 2005 – Part 1
Badgers On the 8/7/04 a Dean Quantrell (44) from Liverpool was imprisoned for 3 months and banned from keeping any animals for 3 years. Quantrell was found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to a Patterdale terrier by failing to obtain treatment for a severe and infected injury to the mouth. The dog was examined by a vet …
Woman shocked at chaos as hunts people, dogs and saboteurs end up in garden
2nd Jan 2019 A woman has described the chaos in her village as hounds, huntsmen and hunt saboteurs herded across the road and ended up in an elderly lady's garden. Sarah Stock was driving home with her husband when she got caught up in the stand-off between members of Belvoir Hunt and members of Nottingham …
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Other Bloodsports Convictions
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 …