1st April 2025
TWO men have been fined after they pleaded guilty to hare coursing offences.
Kirk Rees, 53, and John Turberville, 45, both from Newport were sentenced over offences committed at Burbage in the Wiltshire countryside on September 12 last year.
They both admitted being equipped for searching for or pursuing hares with dogs by having lurchers and recording/thermal imaging equipment and trespassing with the intent to search for hares with dogs.
At Newport Magistrates’ Court, Rees, of Macauley Gardens, was ordered to pay £210.50 in a fine, costs and a surcharge.
Turberville, of Bakers Court, Marshfield was ordered to pay £1,011.50 in a fine, costs and a surcharge.
The court ordered that Rees be deprived of a camera and Turberville of binoculars.
https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/25049240.newport-men-fined-hare-coursing-offences-wiltshire/
£210 WHAT A LAUGH BOTH THESE VILE EVIL BASTARDS SHOULD GO TO PRISON, THEY SAY THE PRISONS ARE FULL SO WHY NOT BRING BACK CAPITAL PUNISHMENT THEN THERE WOULD BE MORE ROOM FOR SCUM LIKE THIS.