Day: January 7, 2023

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Man charged with 16 offences including attempting to kill a deer at night

6th January 2023 A MAN from Bransgore has been charged with animal cruelty offences following a police investigation. Kristen Christopher Cooper, 23 of Westbury Close in Bransgore has been charged with 16 offences in relation to allegations of cruelty to deer and hares. Officers from Dorset Police were assisted by Hampshire officers from the Ringwood …

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Earl of Shaftesbury’s former head gamekeeper ‘caught with poisons while burning buzzards’

4th January 2023 The former head gamekeeper at the Earl of Shaftesbury’s country estate was found in possession of illegal poisons while burning the bodies of protected birds of prey, a court has heard. Paul Allen was discovered with nine dead buzzards and a stash of cyanide and strychnine, when police searched his property in …

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