Still sabbing the bastards
31st October 2024 Two men have been sentenced for illegally hunting deer with a dog. Richard Bostock and Dani Simpson pleaded guilty at Lincoln Magistrates' Court earlier to charges under the hunting act. It followed a police investigation into reports of a deer being hunted and killed on 19 April at Hanby, near Grantham. Both …
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28th October 2024 A man has been found guilty of fox hunting in the first conviction of its kind in Lincolnshire. Neil Burton, the huntsman of the Burton Hunt, was fined £1,490 following a two-day trial at Lincoln Magistrates' Court. The court was shown footage of Burton, filmed by the Lincolnshire Hunt Saboteurs, shouting and …
28th October 2024 Two Counties Hunt Sabs have captured horrifying footage of a fox kill at the opening meet of the notorious Somerset-based Seavington Hunt. While sabs were too far away to directly intervene, they managed to film the hunted fox being brought down by the lead hounds in full view of huntsman Duncan Cinnamond. …
25th October 2024 When Craig Rooks was stopped by police and searched under the Hunting Act his phone uncovered his primitive interest in hare coursing; he called this his ‘dogging phone’. Rooks had been stopped by police in North Greetwell, around 10am on Sunday 14 October last year while driving a Nissan X-Trail. Both the …
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Huntsman Neil Burton shouted and blew a horn to encourage hounds as they pursued a fox, a court heard. Lincoln magistrates were shown footage of Mr Burton, filmed by the Lincolnshire Hunt Saboteurs, of an incident on 27 January on Riseholme Lane near the city. However, the 59-year-old told police in interview he was trying …
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25th October 2024 Two men have been sentenced after they admitted to interfering with a badger sett with a dog in Gwynedd. Anthony Lloyd Wilkinson, 29, of Rhedyw Road, Llanllyfni, and Stephen Lee Jones, 33 of Bro Rhos Estate, Bethel, appeared at Caernarfon Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 16 October. They both pleaded guilty to two …
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25th October 2024 THE SENTENCING of two people who pleaded guilty to sharing monkey torture videos in 2022 has been moved to a later date. Holly LeGresley, of Baldwin Road, Kidderminster, and Adriana Orme, of The Beeches, Ryall, were scheduled to be sentenced at Worcester Crown Court on Friday (October 25). LeGresley, 37, admitted to …
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25th October 2024 Back in March, Devon County Hunt Sabs and Mendip Hunt Sabs intervened in a dig-out at an Axe Vale Harriers meet. As seen in the footage previously shared by the HSA, sabs had come across a gang of hunt terriermen who were digging into a badger sett. Fox and terrier were eventually prised …
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25th October 2024 ‘Out of control’ hounds from a hunt have been caught on camera running amok through a Cotswold tourist hotspot. The hounds were seen on Friday, October 18 rampaging through Bourton-on-the-Water after a hunt appears to have lost control of them in open countryside earlier in the day. The hounds navigated busy roads, …
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From Channel 4 News 22nd October 2024 The RSPB launch their Birdcrime report this week. It says that the past two years have seen the highest number of rare Hen Harriers disappearing, and killed under suspicious circumstances, since records began. One thing is clear, the passing Swaledale sheep certainly notices the hidden camera. But what’s …
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