Still sabbing the bastards
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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28th September 2026 Eggesford Hunt huntsman Jason Marles has been convicted of illegally hunting a fox with hounds following an incident captured on drone footage during the hunt’s Boxing Day meet in December 2025. Jason Marles, huntsman of the Eggesford Hunt. Marles, 44, pleaded guilty to hunting a wild mammal with dogs at Pudson Farm, …
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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 …
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24th September 2026 Three people associated with the Mendip Farmers Hunt have pleaded not guilty to hunting a wild mammal with dogs. Emma Clothier, Charlie Thomas and Bill Payne appeared at Taunton Deane Magistrates’ Court on 15 September 2026. All three pleaded not guilty and are due to face trial on 15 September 2027. Emma …
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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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21st September 2026 At long last, charges have been issued against members of a stag hunt. Huntsman Martin Watts. Image Credit Mendip Hunt Sabs Avon and Somerset Police have charged Quantock Staghounds hunt master Chris Gibbons and huntsman Martin Watts with illegally hunting a wild mammal with dogs in relation to an incident on March …
19th September 2026 A construction worker pleaded guilty to hunting foxes with lurcher dogs on land in Laois. Michael Gabriel Meaney (28) of 59 Friars Green, Tullow Road, Carlow, admitted entering land for the purposes of hunting wild animals at Ballylusk, Ballyfin on November 22, 2025. Garda Sergeant JJ Kirby said Gardaà received a report …
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18th September 2026 A man who used his pets to hunt and kill wild animals, including deer and hares, has been jailed and banned from keeping dogs for 15 years. Connor Bradshaw, 27 from Stockton, was jailed for a year after admitting wildlife offences uncovered through information from animal protection charity Naturewatch Foundation. Bradshaw repeatedly …
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18th September 2026 Thirty-two years on from the controversy of the Barle stag, the excuses may have changed, but for the hunted stag the suffering is horribly familiar. More than three decades have passed since the death of the Barle stag became one of the most notorious episodes associated with stag hunting on Exmoor. Yet …
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17th September 2026 Message from Mendip Hunt Sabs Martin Watts and Chris Gibbons, huntsman and master of the Quantock Stag Hounds, have been charged with Hunting Act offences as a result of footage obtained by our sabs and North Dorset Hunt Sabs on 16th March. On this day, the same stag was chased for over …