Still sabbing the bastards
A farm worker was allegedly assaulted, Warwickshire Police say 11th March 2022 Police are appealing for information following an alleged assault and multiple hare coursing offences in rural Warwickshire. The alleged offences are said to have occurred on February 19 in the Oldberrow area near Henley-in-Arden. A farm worker was allegedly assaulted shortly after locating …
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Government backs down from guidance that would have allowed birds such a crows to be shot 11th March 2022 The government has U-turned on guidance to shooters that reclassified pheasants as livestock, meaning that wild birds such as crows could be shot to protect them in certain circumstances, after a furious reaction from the public. …
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Witnesses saw a pack of hounds chase the animal through the centre of Peatling Magna 10th March 2022 A man in his 30s has been questioned by police officers after an incident in which a fox was chased through a village by a pack of hounds. The incident happened in Peatling Magna, near Lutterworth, in …
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10th March 2022 Three people from Doncaster were convicted earlier this week for poaching offences. Matthew Vann (26) of The Boulevard, Edenthorpe, Ellie Scorer (21) of Tennyson Road, Bentley, and Lewis Hill (21) of Bentley Road, Bentley, appeared at Bridlington Magistrates Court on Monday 7 March. All three were found guilty of hunting wild mammals …
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9th March 2022 SENTENCED You may recall my post from a couple of weeks ago regarding numerous Animal Welfare, Protection of Badgers Act and Hunting offences. The three people involved were sentenced today at Tameside Magistrates Court. District Judge Begley said it was animal cruelty at its worst, involving injury, death, weapons and children were …
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7th March 2022 A PACK of hunt hounds are alleged to have run riot in fields belonging to an animal sanctuary. Staff at the Farm Animal Sanctuary, in the Littletons just outside Evesham, said that around 30 hounds belonging to the North Cotswold Hunt entered their premises last Monday (February 28). Owner of the sanctuary, …
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On the 11th November 2021 Jake Larrier was stopped, searched and interviewed by South Rural Taskforce for Trespass in Pursuit of game in the Ormskirk area of Lancashire. Larrier attended Preston Magistrates court were he pleaded guilty to the offence and was fined, has had to pay costs and also pay a surcharge to the …