Still sabbing the bastards
9th January 2023 Kent Police’s Rural Task Force is investigating the suspected killing of a tawny owl in Upchurch. The incident is believed to have happened in October 2022 and officers have recently come into possession of images of two men they would like to speak to. Police Sergeant Darren Walshaw said: "We suspect an …
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4th January 2023 The former head gamekeeper at the Earl of Shaftesbury’s country estate was found in possession of illegal poisons while burning the bodies of protected birds of prey, a court has heard. Paul Allen was discovered with nine dead buzzards and a stash of cyanide and strychnine, when police searched his property in …
5th October 2022 A gamekeeper has admitted illegally shooting and poisoning birds of prey at internationally important wildlife sites. Matthew Stroud, 46, from Fengate at Weeting, near Thetford, dosed dead pheasants with poison as bait to kill buzzards in woodlands near Weeting Heath and Breckland Forest, which are both protected sites. Appearing at Norwich Magistrates …
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15th July 2022 Exclusive: Dozens of laws protect Queen’s private estates from investigators – but documents reveal allegations of wildlife crime A Guardian investigation has revealed that dozens of UK laws stipulate that police are barred from entering any of the Queen’s private estates to investigate crimes. On a pleasant autumn evening in 2007, a …
13th July 2022 A Co Wicklow farmer has been convicted and fined after large amounts of poison were found in dead protected birds. Christopher Thomas Noel Doyle, also known as Noel Doyle Senior, with an address of Crehelp, Co. Wicklow, was before Carlow District Court charged with a breach of the Birds and Natural Habitats …
13th June 2022 David Matthews, a gamekeeper with 50 years experience, has been convicted at Wrexham Magistrates Court for poison offences uncovered on the McAlpine Estate in Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, North Wales, where he has worked for 25 years. In February 2021 a dead red kite was found on the estate by a member of …
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It is said to be England's largest raptor persecution case 2nd June 2022 A Wiltshire man was caught with a number deceased red kites, buzzards and herrings at a farm in Pewsey, a court heard. Archie Watson, 21, of Dragon Lane, Manningford Bruce in Pewsey was employed as a gamekeeper on the farm and previously …
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10th May 2022 A 21-year-old Wiltshire man is due in court for deliberately harming legally protected British birds of prey in what is being called ‘potentially the largest English raptor persecution case in terms of numbers of victims.’ Raptor persecution is the illegal shooting, trapping and poisoning of birds of prey like peregrine falcons, red …
9th May 2022 A police investigation is under way into whether live pigeons were used as bait to kill birds of prey on a Norfolk estate. Officers went to the Hilborough House estate belonging to William van Cutsem, 42, a close friend of Prince William and godfather to Prince George, as part of a probe …
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From Raptor Persecution UK 6th May 2022 Millden Estate (Angus Glens) gamekeeper convicted for animal cruelty in relation to badger baiting The long-running criminal case against a gamekeeper from Millden Estate in the Angus Glens was partially completed yesterday. Rhys Davies, 28, pleaded guilty at Forfar Sheriff Court to a number of offences relating to …
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