Still sabbing the bastards
From Times Online The pro-hunting campaigner Otis Ferry walked free from court today after claiming that he had only got involved in a skirmish with hunt monitors because of the recent theft of his puppy by animal rights activists. Ferry, 26, the son of the Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry, was given a one-year conditional …
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Otis Ferry has been fined £350 and given a one-year conditional discharge after admitting a public order offence at a hunt in Gloucestershire. Ferry was charged with affray, robbery and assault after a dispute with two hunt monitors near Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, in November 2007. The 26-year-old's not guilty pleas to those charges were accepted at …
The League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) has dropped its private prosecution of four members of the Isle of Wight Hunt, which was the last hunt prosecution adjourned pending a recent High Court judgment. LACS has confirmed it will not be continuing with the prosecution against Stuart Trousdale, Liam Thom, Jamie Butcher and Malcolm Purcell from …
A Devon huntsman has been jailed for assaulting two animal rights activists. Christopher Marles, 48, of Farringdon, had earlier admitted using his horse to knock Helen Weeks to the ground as she filmed the East Devon Hunt. He was serving a suspended sentence for attacking another hunt monitor when the second assault happened in March …
A HUNTSMAN for the Duke of Northumberland has been charged with illegal hunting. Robert McCarthy, 34, of the Kennels, Cannongate, Alnwick, is alleged to have breached the Hunting Act of 2004 in an incident on Wednesday, November 12, 2008, at Bradford Kaims, near Belford. He is due to appear at South East Northumberland Magistrates Court …
AN AGEING pet cat has been ripped apart in her own garden by hunting dogs which had strayed from the main pack. And now the cat's owner is calling for the Western Hunt to make sure its pack is properly trained and under control. About 12 dogs had broken off from the rest of the …
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SEVENTY-SIX people have been prosecuted in England and Wales since the ban on hunting with hounds came into force in February 2005. Masked man: Main picture and left, hunt monitors patrol parts of the lake district; right, a hunting party and their beagles Not one of those prosecutions was in Cumbria. The situation is increasingly …
A DEVASTATED cat owner is in shock today after a pack of hunting hounds savaged her Persian cat. Judy and Brian Dawson's nine-year-old cat Edwina, known as Dween, was mauled by the dogs which burst into their garden while on a hunt in Witnesham yesterday. Today, Rob Haag, joint master of the Easton Harriers hunt …
The Hunting Act makes it illegal to chase and kill foxes, deer, hares and mink with a pack of dogs. There are several exemptions, however, but these are clearly and narrowly defined. For instance, it can be legal to flush out wild animals using one or two dogs, or to use dogs below ground in …
by David Holmes, Chester Chronicle PUBLICANS in rural Cheshire are on the frontline in the battle between pro and anti-hunt supporters. The North West Hunt Saboteurs Association has posted a blacklist of country watering holes on its website to put pressure on licensees to break all links with hunt members. Drinkers are being urged by …
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