Still sabbing the bastards
6th October 2025 A man who admitted killing a swan in a County Durham park has been sentenced at court. Michael Whittle pleaded guilty to killing a wild bird at Riverside Park, in Chester-le-Street, on Wednesday, July 30. The 20-year-old also admitted using threatening or abusive words of behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or …
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6th October 2025 Two men have been arrested over alleged hare coursing in Lancashire and Cheshire. Officers from Lancashire Police's south rural task force conducted an operation alongside Cheshire Police's rural crime team on Sunday (October 5). The forces were targeting illegal hare coursing in the border regions of the two counties. Two men were …
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6th October 2025 A man has appeared in court accused of involvement in hare coursing and being the owner of a dog which worried cattle on land in the Eden Valley. George Mason, 49, is accused of participating in a hare coursing event in a field near the village of Gamblesby on September 1 this …
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4th October 2025 Taylor Sample was due to appear at Newton Aycliffe Maigstrates’ Court on Thursday (October 2) after he pleaded guilty to three charges. Coursing is the illegal practice of setting dogs to chase and kill hares. He was arrested at Burton Agnes in East Yorkshire, about 20 miles south of Scarborough, in November …
2nd October 2025 Two men have been banned from entering private and agricultural land across England and Wales following a major hare coursing investigation. Levi Lee, 36, of Basingstoke Road, Reading, and Francie Doherty, 47, of Gipsy Lane, Wellingborough, both pleaded guilty to attending a hare coursing event on 25 January and were each fined …
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3rd October 2025 The Dorset-based Park Beagles have folded, according to pro-hunt lobby group the Countryside Alliance. As with the Sandhurst & Aldershot Beagles, which we reported last week, the Park Beagles have become a so-called ‘hunt club’, which means they have given up their hounds and staff and will therefore continue to exist in …
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The online blunder that led a BBC team to unmask Europe-wide dog fighting network By Patrick Fee & Guy Grandjean BBC Spotlight 30 September 2025 Dog fighting is as secretive as it is barbaric. The people behind the illegal bloodsport carefully conceal their identities, fearful of arrest and prosecution. However, one dog fighter's IT mix-up …
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