Still sabbing the bastards
One of the most high profile members of Britain's aviculture community has been given a 16-week suspended prison sentence, a curfew between 9pm and 6am and ordered to pay £750 in costs after he admitted illegally keeping one of the UK’s rarest wild birds at his Yorkshire home. Sean Fitzpatrick – a former chairman and …
Continue reading "RSPCA: Bird club official admits illegally keeping rare species"
The RSPCA has said it will continue to gather evidence and prosecute men who dig out badgers and kill them. It follows the convictions last week of two men for badger digging and other offences. They will be sentenced next month by magistrates at Shrewsbury. An RSPCA inspector secretly filmed the men, from Lancashire and …
Two men have been found guilty of badger digging* after they were caught in the act by an undercover RSPCA inspector. Gerard Monk and Paul Billington were filmed digging a badger sett in woodland at Sandford near Whitchurch on 11 May last year. They fled the scene after realising they had been watched. Both men …
Hunt supporter Benjamin James Elliot was ordered to pay £1,065 in fines and costs yesterday after magistrates watched 30 minutes of film footage showing him using his Land Rover to stop a hunt monitor's car travelling freely on a Dorset road. The prosecution told magistrates at Blandford that Elliot's manner of driving was "designed to …
A gamekeeper on the royal family's Highland estates at Balmoral has been fined after a badger was killed by one of his snares, breaching wildlife crime legislation. Robbie Elliot, 45, admitted he had failed to check a snare at least once a day at Birkhall, Prince Charles's Scottish holiday home at Balmoral which he inherited …
Continue reading "Royal gamekeeper fined for snaring badger at Balmoral"
A CONVICTED drug dealer who admitted having an illegal American pit bull terrier has escaped a ban on keeping animals. Animal welfare officers and members of the public yesterday criticised the decision, particularly as the banned dog was found to have injuries consistent with being involved in fighting. Neighbours of Colin Boyle in the Borders …
Continue reading "Drug dealer with illegal dog escapes ban on owning pets"
A REDBOURN man has been banned from entering farmland throughout two counties with a dog after he was caught illegally hunting hares. Jimmy Cash,45, of Lybury Way has been given a two year anti-social behaviour order (ASBO), following a conviction under the 2004 Hunting Act . The order, issued at Stevenage Magistrates' Court on Thursday, …
AN allegation that a Glodwick couple organised dog fights has been withdrawn by the RSPCA. Raja Hussain (28) and Tasleem Akhtar (33) appeared before magistrates in Oldham on Friday, when all charges against Mrs Akhtar, of Mansfield Road, were dropped. Her husband admitted eight charges relating to animal welfare and keeping dangerous dogs, but previous …
A BLOOD sport swoop saw three men arrested in Northumberland. The Operation Seal inquiry was set up jointly between Northumbria Police and the RSPCA’s special operations unit. It followed an intelligence-led operation into badger baiting and cock fighting in Northumberland. The operation also investigated the baiting of other protected animals with dogs. Search warrants were …
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 …
Continue reading "Otis Ferry walks free thanks to puppy plea"