Still sabbing the bastards
29th March 2022 A MAN has been found guilty of hare coursing. Mitchel Cannon, 26, of Sleights, North Yorkshire, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, March 23, after he was detained on suspicion of trespassing in search of game on land at Haisthorpe, East Riding of Yorkshire, on Sunday, December 5. Cannon was fined £300 and ordered …
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From Wiltshire Hunt Saboteurs - 31st March 2022 If anyone thought we were fibbing when we pointed out at least 12 vehicles and 20 officers from Wiltshire Police followed and filmed us as we attempted to stop the Avon Vale from killing wildlife on 12th March 2022 in Neston, we can only apologise for our …
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The woman had video evidence the prosecution witnesses were lying 30th March 2022 Police have paid an undisclosed sum to an anti-hunt protester who sued the force for malicious prosecution. The woman had been accused of screaming threats at members of a local hunt, and Leicestershire Police charged her in connection with the alleged abuse. …
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28th March 2022 A HUNTER found to be carrying a lock knife “endorsed” by celebrity adventurer Bear Grylls had the blade to help keep rodents off nearby farmland, a court was told. Samuel Berry, 24, was arrested after police visited his home in Colchester Road, Elmstead, over an unrelated matter. The officers got no response …
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Gareth Jones was already banned from keeping birds for life 26th March 2022 A Sandwell man already banned from owning birds for the rest of his life has appeared in court for keeping wild goldfinches locked up in cages. RSPCA officers rescued four birds from a home in West Bromwich in December. At Birmingham Magistrates' …
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21st March 2022 Wiltshire Hunt Sabs speak to the Hunt Saboteurs Association. A week last Saturday, Wiltshire and Reading Sabs paid a visit to the closing meet of the Avon Vale Hunt. We have sabbed this hunt numerous times this year, and really are hurting them on and off the field, without a single punch …
20th March 2022 From Herefordshire Hunt Sabs On 5th February 2022 at a Herefordshire Hunt meet at Rosedale, Whylle, a car follower threatened one of our sabs with violence. Moments later he got out of his vehicle, reached back in for what we believe to have been an iron bar and walked towards two of …
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Woman protestor suffered cut head and bruising during assault in field 17th March 2022 A 49-year-old man has been fined £1,000 for assault and criminal damage following a clash with a group of Northamptonshire hunt saboteurs in 2019. Northampton magistrates heard Mark Marshall Ferguson grabbed a woman by the back of her collar before striking …
17th March 2022 Large police presence as anti-hunt campaigners report being 'assaulted' while protesting near Corsham. Photo: Wiltshire Hunt Saboteurs The Wiltshire Saboteurs, a group of animal rights activists attended the Avon Vale closing meet in Neston on Saturday (March 12) to campaign against hunting. While protesting they claim they were attacked by a group …
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From Peterborough Hunt Sabs Today (11th March 2022) at Northampton Magistrates, Mark Ferguson, master of the Pytchley Hunt, was found guilty of Actual Bodily Harm and criminal damage, after he attacked a member of Peterborough Hunt Sabs at an early morning hunt meet in October 2019. Ferguson lifted a woman up by her coat hood …