27 November 2020
Five men have been charged with illegal hunting offences in the Fens.
They were arrested near King’s Lynn after an operation involving rural crime and traffic officers, along with a police helicopter.
Five dogs, a 4×4 vehicle, a quantity of cash and equipment were also seized.
Police received a call at 10.30am reporting coursing under way on a farm at Tilney All Saints just off the A47. Five men then got into a 4×4 and drove across drilled winter wheat and over an embankment onto the A47 causing traffic to come to a stop.
There were reports of hare coursing in the Walpole Cross Keys shortly afterwards, before a police helicopter saw a 4×4 driving at speed through Clenchwarton. The vehicle was found abandoned on Clockcase Lane.
Five men aged 25, 30, 30, 41 and 55 from the Berkshire area were later arrested and charged with hunting mammals with dogs contrary to the Hunting Act.
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/five-arrested-for-hare-coursing-in-the-fens-6526468
Strange how hare coursing which is illegal when caught coursers are charged
Yet never when deer and fox killers are seen hunting
nickyb