Still sabbing the bastards
21st October 2026 Three men have been convicted of hare coursing in what is believed to be Hertfordshire’s first successful prosecution for the offence. The convictions follow an incident at Hunsdon Airfield on November 22, 2025, when police were called to reports of hare coursing involving a silver Nissan Qashqai. Officers detained three men at …
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17th October 2026 As more hunts receive police warnings and notices, are they a route to meaningful action, or a substitute for it? Many of you cannot have failed to notice that we are writing more and more about hunts being issued with Community Protection Warnings (CPWs) and, occasionally, the CPW’s big sister, the Community …
14th October 2026 Two Blaenau Gwent men have been sentenced after admitting taking part in illegal hare coursing. Two Blaenau Gwent men have been sentenced to do unpaid work for their local community after they admitted taking part in illegal hare coursing near Cheltenham. Three other men accused of being part of a group which …
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13th October 2026 Three men have been charged with offences relating to hare coursing, following an investigation by our Rural Engagement Team. The trio, all from Kent, were initially arrested in the Bardfield area on 30 August by rural engagement officers and colleagues from Uttlesford Neighbourhood Policing Team following reports of hare coursing in the …
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7th October 2026 A man has been issued with a Criminal Behaviour Order after being caught hare coursing in West Lancashire and Chorley. Last year, on Sunday, October 5, Lancashire Police’s South Rural Task Force received reports of two men, with lurcher type dogs, believed to be hare coursing on private land in Ormskirk and …
7th October 2026 Two South Wales men have been sentenced to do unpaid work for their local community after they admitted taking part in illegal hare coursing near Cheltenham. Three other men accused of being part of a group which went equipped for hare coursing with the guilty pair have denied involvement and are to …
5th October 2026 A Man from North Wales is to pay more than £1,000 after hare coursing in Lancashire. Joel Miller pleaded guilty to two counts each of trespassing with intent to pursue hares with dogs, and hunting a wild mammal with dogs, at Burnley Magistrates Court on September 29. Miller, 29, of Bryn Crescent, …
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1st October 2026 The private schools schooling children in a masterclass of wildlife criminality. Recently we revealed the full footage of the Stowe School Beagles during what school headteacher, Dr Anthony Wallersteiner, describes as a “huge variety of activities” available to pupils, including “field games…beagling”. Kennedy giving direction to the pupils The school’s Games Coach, …
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28th September 2026 Three men have been arrested on suspicion of hare coursing in Lancashire. On Saturday morning South Rural Taskforce received reports of three males hare coursing in Halsall in Ormskirk. Hare coursing is the illegal blood sport of using sighthounds, like greyhounds or lurchers, to chase, catch, and kill live hares. They attended …
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23rd September 2026 Cub hunting or ‘autumn hunting’ as it is referred to by hunts, has been underway for a few weeks now and already we are seeing overwhelming reports of foxes running for their lives and aggressive behaviour from hunts whose illegal activity is being exposed. On the 15th of September the North Cotswold …
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