Still sabbing the bastards
20 July 2012 Pembrokeshire farmer, 66, jailed over firearms offences A South Pembrokeshire Hunt supporter, arrested but not charged after a protester claimed she had been shot in the head, has been jailed for firearms offences. Steven Barrett, 66, of St Clears, Carmarthenshire, had a sawn-off rifle and ammunition inside his van, Swansea Crown Court …
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Tiverton huntsman John Norrish jailed for four years for party rape A former huntmaster has been jailed for four years for raping a guest as he gave her a lift home following a ball. John Norrish, 68, of East Worlington, near Tiverton denied rape but was found guilty by a jury. The court heard he …
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Verdict is triumph for animal rights groups as trio from Crawley and Horsham Hunt convicted and fined Three leading members of a Sussex hunt have been convicted of pursuing a fox illegally with hounds, in a case that will be seen a significant victory for animal rights activists. The guilty verdicts at Haywards Heath magistrates …
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A LEADING member of Peterborough’s Fitzwilliam Hunt has been fined for a breach of anti-hunting laws. Gamekeeper John Bycroft (67), who is the terrier man to the Fitzwilliam Hunt, was found with another man using terriers to flush foxes from underground dens. But he fell foul of the law after putting a live pregnant vixen …
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A LLANBEDR hunt master has been fined £3,500 for ‘losing’ two guns and leaving a pistol in his car. Alan Owen, 63, of Glandŵr Cottages, Llanbedr, who is the Llanbedr Master of the Hounds, pleaded guilty at Dolgellau magistrates court this week to three charges of failing to comply with the conditions of a shotgun …
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A hunt supporter has been cleared of damaging a badger sett after a judge ruled he may have been the victim of mistaken identity. Andrew Bellamy, 41, had always denied that he was a man caught on film by anti hunt monitors sending a terrier underground and then digging out and killing a fox which …
The Cotswold Vale hunt today (27/3/12) attacked 3 people, one of them a woman in her sixties, during their final hunting day of the season. The first attack involved a motorist who they claimed had hit one of their hounds on the B4213 near Apperley, Gloucestershire. One of the hunt terrier men punched him in …
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ANIMAL campaigners are blaming huntsmen after a badger sett was found dug into and destroyed. Police are investigating reports of a sett allegedly being destroyed by terriermen belonging to an Essex hunt, near to Sturmer Road, New England, in Halstead. It is illegal to enter or disrupt a badger sett without a licence. Renee Hockley …
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Police are investigating an alleged assault on a Carlisle man that occurred during a hunt. It is alleged that the victim, who is a man in his 40s, was monitoring the Coniston Hunt on Saturday when he was assaulted by at least two men who hit him with sticks. He suffered minor facial injuries in …
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