Still sabbing the bastards
20th March 2025 A farmer and game keeper who used illegal traps and stored dangerous chemicals has been sentenced. Police officers found the items after an investigation into the deaths of three birds of prey led them to the property of John Bryant from West Ashby in Horncastle. The 40-year-old pleaded guilty to two charges …
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12th March 2025 Message from Raptor Persecution UK Another trial and yet another gamekeeper convicted of offences relating to the illegal killing of birds of prey. The trial of gamekeeper John Bryant, in relation to the illegal killing of a red kite and two buzzards, concluded at Lincolnshire Magistrates Court last week where he was …
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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Lewis Hall, 24, sold the wild birds of prey for sums of up to £25,700. 10th October 2024 A man convicted of illegally flogging peregrine falcon chicks has been ordered to pay back £27,000 he made from selling the birds of prey. Lewis Hall, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, sold the birds, which were snatched from the wild, from his home …
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30th September 2024 A man will appear in court in relation to the poisoning of three birds of prey. John Bryant, of West Ashby, Horncastle, has been summoned following a police investigation into reports of a red kite and two buzzards being poisoned and killed. Lincolnshire Police said the incidents took place between 2017 and …
18th July 2024 A pheasant breeding farm in Devon has been fined more than £40,000 following the discovery of a poisoned buzzard. Police found a stash of illegal chemicals when they raided Ashley Game Farm at Chulmleigh in 2021. At Exeter Magistrates Court, company director Christopher Hodgson was also fined more than £1,500. Both the …
17th July 2024 A Highlands estate has been banned from holding a general licence for game bird shooting - after two protected red kites were illegally killed on its land. NatureScot has restricted the use of general licences on Lochindorb Estate, near Grantown-on-Spey, for three years. The decision was made on the basis of evidence …
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Thanks to Raptor Persecution UK for the article 28th May 2024 Prominent gamebird breeder Christopher Hodgson, Director of Ashley Game Farm Ltd in Wembworthy, Chulmleigh, Devon appears to have pleaded guilty to multiple offences including the use of the banned pesticide Carbofuran. Ashley Game Farm Ltd is an exceptionally large breeding facility that, according to …
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19th May 2024 THE founder of Barrow’s Owl Sanctuary has been disqualified from keeping or owning birds for five years after a judge ruled he had housed his animals in ‘woefully inadequate conditions’. Paul Rose MBE, 71, pleaded guilty on the day of his trial to two counts of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected …
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7th -March 2024 A man has been charged with attempting to take Goshawks in a cage trap on land on the outskirts of Wrexham. Birds of prey such as Goshawk are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. The 47 year old man from the Wrexham area was postal charged with using a trap …
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