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Ulster officers took action against blood sports enthusiasts following a Sunday Times investigation John Mooney An international network of badger baiters has been exposed following an under-cover investigation by The Sunday Times. The inquiry, run in conjunction with the Ulster Society (for the) Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (USPCA), prompted a series of police raids …
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Six people appeared before a Lincoln court charged in connection with a nationwide RSPCA investigation into dog fighting. Seven men and two women were charged after the RSPCA raided the homes of alleged dog fighting enthusiasts in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Birmingham and Teeside. The arrests followed alleged dog fights in the villages of Kexby near Lincoln …
The owner of an illegal pit bull terrier used in dog fighting and left without veterinary treatment has escaped being locked up. Mohammed Fedar swaggered out of West Bromwich Magistrates Court and posed gangster style for photographs after getting a 20-week sentence suspended for 12 months. Fedar, aged 20, of Westfield Road, Smethwick, was banned …
A MAN charged with 13 counts relating to dog fighting entered not guilty pleas at Grantham Magistrates Court on Thursday. John Knibbs, 44, of High Field, Harrowby Hall Estate, will now face a three-day trial at Grantham Magistrates on a date yet to be decided. Knibbs has been charged with nine charges of causing unnecessary …
A Norfolk landowner and her colleague were convicted of hare coursing today after a judge ruled their “sincere” attempt to legally beat the hunting ban had failed. Mary Birkbeck, 77, and Les Anderson, 80, were found guilty of attending and facilitating two illegal coursing events in November 2007 and January 2008. Birkbeck was also convicted …
BADGER baiters who were caught interfering with a sett in north Northumberland and found with vile videos of animal cruelty on their phones have been sentenced today. Callous Christopher Hindmarsh and accomplice Justin Lang have been disqualified from keeping dogs for three years and will have to pay £260 each for costs. They will also …
by Graham Fraser, Hamilton Advertiser TWO Lanarkshire men found guilty of hare coursing have been warned they could face jail. Robert Clements (44), of Moray Avenue, Blantyre, and co-accused David Scott (40), of Carluke, used three lurchers to hunt a juvenile hare on farmland near Stirling. Sentence on the men, who both denied the charge, …
Two brothers have been ordered to pay more than £1,000 each in fines and costs for hare coursing. Craig Richards, 33, and his younger brother Scott, 20, from Rowley Regis, in the West Midlands, admitted three charges of hunting hares with dogs. Craig Richards was ordered to pay fines, costs and compensation of £1,176.65, and …
A man from Penrith and another from Skipton have been fined £200 each after hunting a fox with a dog and causing a dog to enter a badger sett. John Joseph Bowman, 19, of Lakeland View, Greengill, Penrith and William Smith, 27, of Keighley Road, Skipton today (Monday 19 May 2008) pleaded guilty to both …
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TORY MP Nicholas Soames was slapped with a two month ban after admitting driving his quad bike with no insurance. The ex Crawley MP, 60, a grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, was filmed committing the offence by hunt saboteurs as he followed a New Year's Day hunt in Slaugham. Footage showed a group of people, …