Still sabbing the bastards
Message from the Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) 31st July 2023 The red grouse shooting season takes place each year from 12th August – the ‘Glorious Twelfth’ – until 10th December. The HSA has a longstanding tradition of sabbing the beginning of the season and last year was no different with a number of shoots being shut …
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26th July 2023 The Puckeridge and Essex Union Hunt have today (Wednesday 26 July) been issued a Community Protection Notice (CPN) in relation to allegations of ongoing anti-social behaviour (ASB). The notice was issued following an investigation by officers from Hertfordshire Constabulary’s Rural Operational Support Team (ROST). The group, which is a trail hunt now …
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23rd July 2023 TWO men are due to appear in court in Furness charged with hunting a wild mammal with dogs and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal. Benjamin Wilson, of Barden Avenue in Bradford, and Benjamin Grannan of Burnley Road, Hebden Bridge, are said to have been hunting a wild mammal with dogs …
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22nd July 2023 The men were reported to the police who caught them at the scene while hare coursing. Two men infiltrated fields in Essex to let their greyhounds loose on hares - and have now been sentenced in one of the first cases of its kind in the UK. The men broke into fields …
20th July 2023 Two hare coursers have been handed five-year criminal behaviour orders and ordered to pay fines and costs for offences in Lincolnshire. Robert Makepeace, aged 42, of, Headcorn, Ashford, and Nathan Smith, aged 57, of Mangravet Avenue, Maidstone, were arrested following reports of hare coursing in Ings Lane, Leverton, on 12 December, 2022. …
From the Hunt Saboteurs Association 22nd July 2023 And why the next Government needs to get a grip on illegal hunting. Unless you’re doing a very good job of hiding from the news, you’ll know that there’s a General Election on the horizon. Maybe not in the next few months, but likely within the next …
May 2021 From the Hunt Saboteurs Association Shooting Officer Drive through some of the countryside in Wales, Scotland and England you could be forgiven for thinking, especially when the heather is in bloom, how beautiful and diverse it is. In reality, the Grouse Moors are not dissimilar to palm oil plantations: a monoculture. The “crop” …
18th July 2023 20 year old Sonny-Joe Barney's been served with a criminal behaviour order. A Verwood man's been given a criminal behaviour order, banning him from owning wild animals or catapults, as well as to keep off private farmland. 20 year old Sonny-Joe Barney has previously been sentenced to a 12 month community order …
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14th July 2023 Jones is the huntsman of the Cottesmore Hunt ################## A horse rider has been charged with one count of common assault following an incident in Whissendine earlier this year. Sam Jones, of Cottesmore Road in Ashwell, Rutland, is due to appear at Leicester Magistrates’ Court on Friday 11 August. The charge relates …
12th July 2023 A man accused of illegal hunting and animal welfare offences has been handed new charges. William Warren, aged 38, of Main Road, Barnard Gate in Witney, appeared in Oxford Magistrates' Court today (July 12) charged with two counts each of animal welfare offences and hunting offences by postal requisition on April 15. …
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