Still sabbing the bastards
28th February 2023 A Wiltshire-based hunt has been thrown out of the sport's governing body after footage of a fox being thrown to the hounds was posted online. The clip appears to show members of the Avon Vale Hunt dig the animal from its den before tossing it to waiting dogs. It sparked a public …
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27th February 2023 ITV news this afternoon - It is our understanding that their bail conditions are; Not to partake in trail hunting activities, Not to contact or interfere with witnesses (including sabs), Not to be in a public place in charge of a dog not on a lead. ################### Three men arrested after a …
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Three men who appeared at Preston Crown Court charged with illegally killing deer and causing them unnecessary suffering by either standing on their throats to facilitate a dog attack or cutting the animal’s throat with a knife will go on trial. 27th February 2023 Stephen Dixon, 39, Keswick Road, Lancaster is charged with killing a …
27th February 2023 Three men have been charged in connection with an illegal hare coursing event. Warwickshire Police say the three are accused of being part of alleged hare-coursing in the Brinklow area where three dogs and one vehicle was seized. All three were charged with offences under the Hunting Act 2004 and Police, Crime, …
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Farmer William Elder was cleared of assault after an argument with his gamekeeper and a teenage beater. 23rd February 2023 A landowner threw a dead partridge at his gamekeeper in a falling out over the lacklustre spoils of a £15,000 game shoot, a court has been told. Farmer William Elder took issue with the direction …
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25th February 2023 Ryan Thomas Spence, 33, of Redcar, became the first offender in North Yorkshire to be given a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) for hare coursing offences last year. Spence, described as a ‘prolific courser’, was handed the banning order following a North Yorkshire Police investigation which saw him convicted of hunting wild mammals …
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24th February 2023 Police have thanked the public for their help in brining three men to justice in connection with hare coursing. Three men have been sentenced trespassing with intent to search for or to pursue hares with dogs at Oxfordshire Magistrates' Court this week. Michael Toogood, 26, of Warrant Road in Market Drayton, and …
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24th February 2023 Three men have been fined almost £800 for poaching after being caught on private land with nine dogs, eight dead rabbits, a catapult, ball bearings and a hunting knife. Officers were called to a report of trespassing on farmland in Queenborough, Sheppey, where they found the men, one of whom was arrested …
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23rd February 2023 Two poachers have been banned from owning or keeping dogs for three years in what prosecutors described as a legal first. Essex Police said David Hilden, 39, and 35-year-old Tyron Young were stopped by officers while walking with four dogs across crop fields on October 15 2022. Two of the dogs were …
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24th February 2023 Three men have been arrested over an incident in which a pack of hounds chased a fox into a family's private garden before killing it. The fox's death was caught on numerous CCTV cameras at the home in Hingham, Norfolk on Monday afternoon. Footage showing the fox hiding from the dogs, before …