More badger diggers in court

16 April 2012 THREE men have appeared before Selby magistrates charged with digging for badgers. The alleged offence is said to have taken place at High Eggborough Lane in Eggborough on January 8 this year, and ended with a terrier dog called Jake being injured. Before the court were Lee Whinfrey, 28, Nathan Whinfrey, 25, [...]

‘Twisted’ badger baiter Anthony Lee jailed

A man who urged his dog to attack and kill badgers and kept footage of the fights on his phone has been jailed. A magistrate wiped away tears while watching three videos of animal fights that Anthony Lee, 23, recorded. Lee, of Coronation Way, Keighley, West Yorkshire, admitted three counts of animal fighting and was [...]

Hunt members found guilty of illegally pursuing fox with hounds

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 [...]

Hunt terrier man fined over fox ‘in a barrel’

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 [...]

Badger baiting accused face court

Badger The men were charged as part of an investigation into badger baiting Three men have appeared in court over alleged badger baiting. The defendants are all accused of causing unnecessary suffering to a terrier dog and badger and interfering with a badger sett. At Newtownards Magistrates Court were Graham Arthur Officer, 40, from Rose [...]

Cumbria – Hunting trial guilty verdict

TWO Cumbrian men have been found guilty by a Sheriff of deliberately hunting foxes and badgers on farmland near Langholm. Ryan Lowe, 30, of Baird Road, Harraby, Carlisle, and 40-year-old Brian Sanderson, of West Lane, Shap, were also found guilty of being in possession of items capable of being used for an offence contrary to [...]

Two Caernarfon men deny badger baiting offences

A FARMER heard the “frenzied barking” of dogs and knew they were hunting badgers, a court heard. Bleddyn Jones told Caernarfon Magistrates he was going to feed cattle on land near Criccieth last April when he spotted a van parked close to the well established badger sett. A few minutes later he heard the dogs [...]

Hunt master fined over gun charges

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 [...]

Lady turns on a foxhunter!

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Terrierman wins badger sett appeal

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 [...]