Still sabbing the bastards
A 63 year old man has today (12th January 2012) been convicted of possessing a highly toxic banned pesticide At Lanark Sheriff Court this afternoon, Cyril McLachlan was fined £635 after admitting to the possession of Carbofuran, a toxic pesticide banned in 2001. The gamekeeper, with 40 years experience, was arrested during an operation by …
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A gamekeeper who poisoned four buzzards has been ordered to carry out 100 hours of community service. David Whitefield, 45, admitted poisoning the birds with chloralose baits at Coulter Allers Farm, Biggar, between March and November 2009. Lanark Sheriff Court heard how he was caught after Scottish SPCA officers and police searched the farm. Sheriff …
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An egg collector has been jailed for stealing hundreds of eggs from birds including a golden eagle and osprey. More than 700 eggs - stolen from nests in Scotland and Essex - camouflage clothing, climbing equipment and maps of nesting spots were found at the home of Matthew Gonshaw in Bow, east London. Gonshaw, 49, …
A Norfolk gamekeeper was told today he could be sent to prison after admitting causing a fight between two dogs and a fox. Christopher John Carter, 49, of The Burrows, in Gayton Thorpe, pleaded guilty at King’s Lynn Magistrates’ Court this afternoon to causing the fight between the animals in July 2009. Appearing alongside Carter …
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A PENSIONER has admitted possessing illegal pesticides and firearms without a certificate on his farm. Allan Armistead, 74, appeared at Furness Magistrates’ Court today (6) charged with a string of offences concerning the illegal storing of pesticides, firearms and ammunition. Armistead pleaded guilty to seven counts of storing a pesticide, which included Strychnine, Cymag, Phosdrin …
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A man has been charged in connection with the poisoning and shooting of red kites in south Cumbria. If follows an investigation into a number of incidents near Ulverston involving the birds in the past year. Allan Armistead, 74 from Oxen Park, near Ulverston, will appear at Furness Magistrates' Court on 6 December. He faces …
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There’ll be some red faces at the SGA today. After all the proclamations of Alex Hogg, Chairman of the Scottish Gamekeepers Association, who is on record as saying, “Professional gamekeepers do not poison raptors” (see here), it turns out that the gamekeeper David Alexander Whitefield, who today was convicted of poisoning four buzzards (see here), …
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A previously convicted gamekeeper has today admitted to poisoning four buzzards with Alpha-chloralose laced baits. At Lanark Sheriff Court, David Alexander Whitefield (45) of Coulter, near Biggar in Lanarkshire, pled guilty to the offences that took place between March and November 2009 at Culter Allers Farm, near Biggar, where Whitefield was employed as the sole …
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With the grouse season about to start on the 12th August and the pheasant season starting on 1st October I thought I would put a few articles up all about the 'good old gamekeeper'. Former Holkham Estate gamekeeper given conditional discharge Derbyshire gamekeeper guilty of trapping birds of prey Gamekeeper fined for wilfully killing badger Gamekeeper fined …
A gamekeeper illegally used a cage trap baited with a live pigeon to catch birds of prey, magistrates have found. A gamekeeper working on National Trust land has been found guilty of illegally trapping birds of prey in the Peak District. Glenn Brown, 39, of Upper Derwent Valley, was filmed using a cage with …
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