24th September 2026
Eggesford Huntsman Jason Marles admitted illegal hunting in Exeter Magistrates court on Wednesday September 23, 2026.
The incident occurred on Boxing Day 2025, and featured in the Channel 4 investigative report by Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.
Drone footage recorded by Devon County Hunt Saboteurs showed a fox being bolted from rubble on Pudson Farm near Okehampton. The video also showed two men moving piles of rubble as Marles stands waiting next to them with the hounds, once the fox is bolted the hounds then gave chase.
The court heard that Marles, of the Eggesford Hunt Kennels at Chumleigh, Devon, was this week emigrating to New Zealand for the next five years.
He was fined him £500 with £285 costs.
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£500 fine is disgusting this bastard should have been locked up before he runs away to New Zealand. Seems to me all these illegal wild life animals lives these scum take meals nothing to these judges. Time the law changed and NOW before the hunting season starts again the law needs to be firm re the so called trail hunting which we all know is a cover for what these bastards really do. It is just unbelievable that these thugs have got away with breaking the law for nearly 22 years. Think I might find some way of breaking the law and see what happens.??????????????????????????????????