Address – Arnold Crescent, Mexborough
Convicted – 30/7/84
Fine – £150 and £135 costs
Magistrates – Chesterfield
Age/D.O.B – 35
Also convicted – Trevor Jackson, John Bradder and David Walker
Notes – They all said they were after foxes. All found guilty of attempting to take a badger, accept David Walker who pleaded guilty, so only £20 costs.
Name – Campbell Stephen
Address – Dalry
Convicted – ?
Fine – £200
Magistrates – Kilmarnock
Age/D.O.B – 22
Also convicted – Alan Wallace, William McHardy
Notes – Stood watching while Wallace and McHardy put their dogs down the badger sett. All three claimed the dogs were only used for chasing rabbits
Name – Camps Simon
Address –
Convicted – 18/9/90
Fine – £400 and £140 costs
Magistrates – Crewe
Age/D.O.B –
Also convicted – Kevin Melody and Graham Evans
Notes –
Name – Carley Sean
Address – Leawood Road, Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent
Convicted – 20/1/89 appealed and lost 31/3/89
Fine -£450 and £60 costs
Magistrates – Eccleshall and Stafford Crown Court
Age/D.O.B – 26
Also convicted – Christopher Partington
Notes – Found guilty of digging for badgers. At the appeal they were allowed to spread the payments over three years instead of two. They said they were only after foxes.
Name – Carr Howard (engineer)
Address – Upperclough, Linthwaite, Huddersfield
Convicted – 12/5/85
Fine – £200 and £67 costs
Magistrates – Chesterfield
Age/D.O.B – 25
Also convicted – Andrew Fenwick and Carl Walker
Notes – All found guilty of attempting to dig for badgers. They said they were after foxes.
Name – Carroll Michael
Address – Inch Cross, Stradbally
Convicted – Autumn 1994
Fine – 6 months suspended sentence and £1000
Magistrates – ?
Age/D.O.B –
Also convicted – John Conroy, Tom Conolly, Michael Marum and Tom Parr
Notes – 32 charges of cruelty to animals. All brought to court after Channel 4 undercover programme on badger digging holidays in Eire. Tom Parr was the ringleader.
Name – Cartwright Paul
Address – North Green, Calverton, Nottingham
Convicted – 15/5/84 and appealed 13/12/84
Fine – £500 and £236 costs, fine cut at appeal to £250 and ordered to pay a further £100 costs
Magistrates – Alfreton and Derby Crown Court
Age/D.O.B – 43
Also convicted – Philip Harrison, Lewis Edwards, Kevin Baines and David Morris
Notes – All found guilty of attempting to injure or take a badger from a sett and digging for badgers. Caught July 1883. All defended by Mr John Winch, they all said they were looking for badgers.
Name – Casey Carl
Address – Edward Street, Meardy
Convicted – 1986
Fine – £150 and £30 costs and a further £100 costs at the appeal
Magistrates – Narberth and Carmarthern Crown Court
Age/D.O.B – 21
Also convicted – Nigel Griffiths, Michael Lane, Paul Rees and Gerald Durham.
Notes – All found guilty of attempting to take a badger. Mr Leighton Davies defended them all.
Name – Casey John
Address – Coolcarrigan
Convicted – 25/4/97
Fine – See below
Magistrates – Trim District Court
Age/D.O.B – 32
Also convicted – Peter Maher and Patrick Mulligan
Notes – They all admitted interfering with the set of a badger and were described as “blackguards” by a judge at Trim District Court on 25/4/97. Eventually one of the men, Peter Maher was remanded in custody for a seven days. The court heard he had given a false name and address to a wildlife ranger who came across the men. The others were fined. Maher, along with John Casey (32) and Patrick Mulligan jnr (28) were charged with entering lands without the owner’s permission on 25/2/96. Casey and Mulligan were told they must pay £100 witness expenses each in addition to fines of £150 and £100 respectively. The judge also disqualified Casey from driving for 12 months for using his car in connection with the offence. The three defendants also admitted interfering with/destroying the breeding place of a protected wild animal and carrying a spade and shovel capable of being used for the hunting of a wild bird or animal. The judge said they had dug 1.3 meters deep into the badger set and “are blackguards”. The badger is a protected animal, this is a well-known set in the area and they deliberately had two dogs and another dog in the boot. If a badger catches you he won’t let go. It is his only defence. It is disgusting.” He remanded Maher in custody for one week to appear again in Trim District Court at a later date. Recognisance was set in the event of an appeal.
Name – Cashmore Darren
Address – Harvey Road, Meir, Stoke-on-Trent
Convicted – 31/1/90
Fine – 3 months and £500, fine later to be quashed to 3 year cond. dis.
Magistrates – Cheadle
Age/D.O.B – 22
Also convicted – Sean Whalley
Notes – Claimed they were digging for foxes. Banned from keeping dogs for 5 years. Appealed and the £500 fine was dropped to a 3 year con. dis. by Judge William Allardice at Stoke Crown Court.
Name – Cawe Charles William (painter)
Address – Bromley Close, Walderslade, Chatham
Convicted – 2/12/88
Fine – £300 and £250 costs
Magistrates – Croydon
Age/D.O.B – 42
Also convicted – Peter Wade
Notes – Found guilty of attempting to take a badger. They said they were hunting foxes and produced a foxes tail to prove it. One person managed to escape. Charles Gibson defended both of them. Barry Peachy gave evidence for the defence.
Name – Challinor Darren
Address – Adelaide Road, Blacon, Chester
Convicted – In court 22/2/85 and due to appear again 25/4/85
Fine –
Magistrates – Wrexham
Age/D.O.B – 19
Also charged – Gary Newell
Notes – Charged with unlawfully attempting to kill, injure or take a badger. Caught 2/2/85. A third man was also charged but failed to appear in court, and a warrant for his arrest was issued.
Name – Chappell Neil Colin
Address – 2 Uppingham Drive, Broughton Astley, Leicester
Convicted – 9/3/90
Fine – £1000 and £141 costs (£400 for attempting to take a badger, £400 for digging for a badger and £200 for cruelty to a terrier used in the incident.)
Magistrates – Market Bosworth
Age/D.O.B – 33
Also convicted – John Ford, Alistair Pick and Mark Sloan
Notes – 44 years digging experience between them all.
Name – Cheeseman Paul (Former kennel man with the Enfield Chase, now employed by Taunton Vale Hunt)
Address – Formerly of The Kennels, White Stubbs Lane, Broxbourne
Convicted – 3/8/92
Fine – 1 year conditional discharge and £75 costs
Magistrates – Hertford
Age/D.O.B –
Also convicted – Alone
Notes – Caught November 1991. Found guilty of interfering with a badger sett, he said he was after foxes. The four joint masters of the hunt were suspended by the MFHA for 28 days pending an inquiry.
Name – Christon Peter
Address – Runwick Avenue, Acklan, Middlesborough
Convicted – Winter 1993
Fine – £1000 and £600 costs
Magistrates – Teesside
Age/D.O.B – 21
Also convicted – Neil Elwine
Notes – Admitted digging for badgers.
Name – Clark David
Address – Bentley Close, Lillington, Leamington Spa
Convicted – 11/9/97
Fine – See below
Magistrates – Banbury
Age/D.O.B – 37
Also convicted – Richard Underhill also caught Fredrick Smalley
Notes – Banbury magistrates took only one hour to find them both guilty and gave them 60 day sentences for attempting to take badgers, sending a dog into a badger sett and damaging a sett in August 1996. During the trial which lasted two days the court heard how the pair were caught armed with spades at a badger sett in August 1996. They both claimed, wait for it, that they were trying to trap foxes and rabbits and their dogs had entered a badger sett by accident. When police raided Clark’s home they found his living room filled with badger and fox trophies and gin traps were mounted on the walls. He also had dozens of books on bloodsports and hunting and 50 videos containing footage of rabbits and foxes being trapped and killed.. Clark and Underhill claimed they were digging into the sett to rescue their terrier, which had run into the badger sett. Following an appeal at Oxford Crown Court on 16/1/98 the judge ordered the men serve the remaining time of their original sentences, and gave them 30 days each on the other 2 charges, to run concurrently with their longer sentence. Frederick Smalley was charged with interfering with a badger sett by destroying it on his farm between September 10 and October 5 1996. He was due to be tried separately, but sadly I don’t know the outcome of his trial.
Name – Clark Robert
Address – Dorrington Road, Lancaster
In court 12/2/94, due in court for trial 21/21 April 1994
Fine –
Magistrates – Appleby
Age/D.O.B – 23
Also charged – Jason Parker and Paul Florkowskie
Notes – Caught 8/12/93. All charged with interference with a badger sett.
Name – Clifton Stephen (Huntsman with Isle of Wight Foxhounds)
Address – Hunt Kennels, Gatcombe, Isle of Wight
Convicted – 15-17/5/91
Fine – £500 and £500 costs
Magistrates – Newport
Age/D.O.B – 35
Also convicted – James Butcher
Notes – Both found guilty of digging for badgers. Convicted on evidence from an undercover RSPCA worker, Mr Paul Martin. They said they were after foxes.
Name – Colbeck Joseph
Address – Lance Close, Liverpool
Convicted – 13/3/87
Fine – £1500 (£750 for each offence)
Magistrates – Hawkshead
Age/D.O.B –
Also convicted – Joseph Rooney and Wayne Scott
Notes – Caught 11/11/86. Found guilty of digging for badgers, and attempting to take badgers. The magistrates adjourned the sentencing on Scott after hearing he had a previous conviction for digging.
Name – Colleran John
Address – 26 Orchard Hey, Aintree, Liverpool
Convicted – 25/8/87
Fine – £500 and £45 costs
Magistrates – Flint
Age/D.O.B – 10/3/64
Also convicted – Ian Smith and Peter Davies
Notes –
Name – Collins Darren
Address – Grasmere Drive, Worcester
In court 20/11/87
Not guilty
Magistrates – Upton
Age/D.O.B – 17
Also charged – Phillip Collins
Notes – Caught Feb. 86. Found not guilty of trying to kill, injure or take a badger. They said they were looking for rabbits. A third man, Anthony Cahill of Liverpool and a 10 year old youth were also present at the dig. Mrs Sandy Bannister defended them both.
Name – Collins John Joseph
Address – Botha Road, Bordesley Green
Convicted – 26/2/87 and appealed 19/5/87
Fine – £400 and £100 costs fine cut in half at appeal
Magistrates – Bromsgrove and Worcester Crown Court
Age/D.O.B – 25
Also convicted – Martin Bradley, Mark Poyser and John Whitehouse
Notes – All found guilty of attempting to take a badger and digging for a badger. Defended by Amanda Pittaway and Nick Doherty. Bradleys dog Toby was forfeited. At appeal Judge Michael Mott cut their fines in half on a legal technicality after agreeing they should have been fined for one charge not two. Bradley also asked for his dog back, but was refused.
Name – Collins Phillip Anthony
Address – Lechampton Close, Worcester
In court 20/11/87
Not guilty
Magistrates – Upton
Age/D.O.B – 26
Also charged – Darren Collins
Notes – Caught Feb. 86. Found not guilty of trying to kill, injure or take a badger. They said they were looking for rabbits. A third man, Anthony Cahill of Liverpool and a 10 year old youth were also present at the dig. Mrs Sandy Bannister defended them both.
Name – Conboy Andrew
Address – 14 Sherwood Avenue, Droylsden, Manchester
Convicted – 3/7/96 back 9/8/96 for sentence
Fine – 150 community service and £100 costs
Magistrates – Macclesfield
Age/D.O.B – 27
Also convicted – Mark Pavitt and Nicolas Dixon
Notes – All admitted to interfering with a badger sett on 18/12/95. A charge of causing cruelty to a dog was dropped. The three were all found near the sett by the police, the sett entrance was covered by a net, they also claimed they were after foxes.
Name – Concannon Anthony
Address – 197 Devonshire Road, Atherton
Convicted – 20/8/87 and appealed
Fine – £500 and £150 costs
Magistrates – Vale Royal and Knutsford Crown Court
Age/D.O.B – 40
Also convicted – Gerald Treanor, Leslie Mountford and Vernon Brown
Notes – They claimed they were hunting for rabbits. Found guilty of badger baiting. Judge Geoffery Kilfoil was at Knutsford Crown Court.
Name – Connor John
Address – Meryll Gardens, Hartlepool
Convicted – 8/3/88
Fine – £300 and £20 costs
Magistrates – Teesside
Age/D.O.B – 25
Also convicted – Ian McKinley, Gary Wilson and Carl Malham
Notes – All were found guilty of digging for badgers
Name – Conolly Tom
Address – Mountmellick Road, Portaoise
Convicted – Autumn 1994
Fine – 6 months suspended sentence and £1000 costs
Magistrates – ?
Age/D.O.B –
Also convicted – Michael Carroll, John Conroy, Michael Marum and Tom Parr
Notes – 32 charges of cruelty to animals. All brought to court after Channel 4 undercover programme on badger digging holidays in Eire.
Name – Conroy John
Address – Rathmoyle Cottages, Abbeyleix
Convicted – Autumn 1994
Fine – 6 months suspended sentence and £1000 costs
Magistrates – ?
Age/D.O.B –
Also convicted – Michael Carroll, Tom Conolly, Michael Marum and Tom Parr
Notes – 18 charges of cruelty to animals. All brought to court after Channel 4 undercover programme on badger digging holidays in Eire.
Name – Cornthwaite Morris William (member of Rother Valley Working Terrier Club)
Address – 20 Central Avenue, Sunneyside, Rotherham
Convicted – 7/5/87
Fine – £80 and £15 costs
Magistrates – Rotherham
Age/D.O.B – 26
Also convicted – Peter Bottom, Alan Green, David Watson, Thomas Eyre and Roy Winfindale
Notes – All found guilty of digging for badgers. A charge of attempting to kill a badger was dropped.
Name – Cornthwaite Morris William (member of Rother Valley Working Terrier Club)
Address – 20 Central Avenue, Sunneyside, Rotherham
Convicted – 15/6/87
Fine – £500 and £28.35 costs
Magistrates – Renishaw
Age/D.O.B – 14/6/60
Also convicted – Alan Green and Peter Bottom
Notes – Caught 20/12/86. All pleaded guilty to digging for badgers. They also have a conviction for badger offences from May 87. The same sett was the subject of a digging case on 12/4/85. See Howard Carr.
Name – Corps Steven
Address – Whitefoot Lane, Bromley
Convicted – 11/6/87
Fine – 2 years conditional discharge and £60 costs
Magistrates – Dartford
Age/D.O.B –
Also convicted – Mark Welford
Notes – They both said they were after foxes. Both found guilty of attempting to take a badger. Caught September 1986. All equipment taken.
Name – Corser Ronald
Address – Beechtrees, Skelmersdale
Convicted – 5/11/87
Fine – £110 and £55 costs
Magistrates – Ormskirk
Age/D.O.B – 25
Also convicted – Christopher and David Stewart
Notes – Found guilty of attempting to kill a badger and digging for badgers. When the police went to C. Stewarts house they found stuffed birds and a stuffed badgers head, which he claimed he bought in a Macclesfield gun shop.
Name – Coulthurst Kenneth
Address – Abel Street, Burnley
Convicted – 3/4/82
Fine – £120 (£40 for each offence) and £30 costs
Magistrates – ?
Age/D.O.B – 40
Also convicted – John Roscoe
Notes – Found guilty of twice digging for badgers and being in possession of a badger. They said they were after foxes.
Name – Coupe Wayne Thomas
Address – 26 Kirlington Road, Rainworth, Nottingham
Convicted – 13/1/93
Fine – £300 and £200 costs
Magistrates – Louth
Age/D.O.B – 27
Also convicted – Gary and Stephen Tucker and Andrew West
Notes – Caught 4/5/92. All pleaded guilty to interfering with a badger sett. Andrew West was due to appear in court at a later date after being found guilty of possessing 5 dead badgers, which he kept in his freezer. Defended by Nick Doherty. They said they were after foxes and rabbits.
Name – Creevey Sean
Address – Hillside Avenue, Hyton, Liverpool
Convicted – 30/9/?
Fine – £150
Magistrates – Ormskirk
Age/D.O.B – Aged 24
Also convicted – Alone
Notes – Caught hare coursing on Lord Leverhulme’s estate at Altcar
Name – Crelin Michael (Labourer)
Address – Gammacroft, Millom
Convicted – 30/1/83
Fine – £600
Magistrates – Millom
Age/D.O.B – 26
Also convicted – Rarmond Mossop, Stephen Mossop, Michael Crelin and John Turner
Notes – Crelin was found not guilty of digging for badgers, but guilty of aiding and abetting cruelly treating and killing it. Raymond Mossop held the badger up in the air while his son Stephen hit it with a spade. They were caught when they sent their film to Colourtrend to be developed. Found guilty of digging for badgers.
Name – Crowther Jonathan Karl
Address – Wythenshaw, Manchester
Convicted – 20/4/90
Fine – ?
Magistrates – Macclesfield
Age/D.O.B – 22/7/65
Also convicted – Vincent Walldock, David Lonston and William Mullin
Notes –
Name – Crozier Stephen
Address – Buttermere Drive, Dalton (parents address)
Convicted – 26/1/90
Fine – £400
Magistrates – Ulverston
Age/D.O.B – 32
Also convicted – Shaun Hornsby
Notes – Pleaded guilty to digging for foxes. Mr Christopher Barron defended Hornsby, Crozier was not represented.
Name – Cundliffe Thomas
Address – 21 Derby Road, Goldbourne, Wigan
Convicted – 6/8/87
Fine – £200 and £25 costs
Magistrates – Macclesfield
Age/D.O.B – 34
Also convicted – Mark Tempest, John Billington, Peter Noon and David Boffey.
Notes – All found guilty of attempting to take a badger and digging for badgers. They were fined £100 on each charge. Defended by Mr Richard Heap.
Name – Culley Anthony Francis
Address – Swallow Hirst Crescent, Norris Green, Liverpool
Convicted – 25/9/93 and sentenced 2/11/93
Fine – 6 months
Magistrates – Mold
Age/D.O.B – 23
Also convicted – Stephen Maxwell and Colin Buoey
Notes – Caught 17/1/93. Found guilty of attempting to take a badger, interfering with a badger sett and causing un-necessary suffering to 2 dogs. In addition to three current 6 months jail sentences, magistrates ordered that his car and equipment should be destroyed. He was also banned from owning dogs for 5 years. Maxwell and Culley have previous convictions for badger offences.
Name – Culley Anthony Francis
Address – 72 Swallow Hurst Crescent, Liverpool
Convicted – 31/10/92
Fine – 3 months suspended for 2 years and £109 costs
Magistrates – Market Drayton
Age/D.O.B –
Also convicted – Carl Morgan, Stephen Maxwell and Stephen Fox
Notes – Caught November 1991. All found guilty of digging for badgers. Maxwell, Morgan and Culley all have convictions for other badger offences.
Name – Cunningham Paul
Address – Hawthorne Road, Bacup
In court 10/10/95
Charges were dropped
Magistrates – Dublin
Age/D.O.B – 34
Also charged – Graham Evans and David Atkinson
Notes – All three were freed after charges of cruelly treating and causing unnecessary suffering to three terriers were dismissed. They were arrested on 9/10/95 at Dublin’s North Wall ferry terminal after a tip-off. Judge Desmond Hogan ruled the charges had been incorrectly brought, as they did not specify where the offence took place. “As far as I am concerned they could have taken place on the moon” he said. Three dogs with horrific injuries had to be put down “on humane grounds” one had its lower jaw torn and this had become infected; another was blind; while a number had pus coming from their mouths, as well as deep lacerations to the face. Four surviving dogs, which included a six week old pup, were moved to a secret location.
Name – Cupitt Brian
Address – Farnborough Road, Clifton, Nottingham
Convicted – 23/12/83
Fine – £700 and £230 costs (see below)
Magistrates – Nottingham
Age/D.O.B – 45
Also convicted – Mark Shaw, William Napier and Andrew Osbourne
Notes – Caught 24/4/83. All found guilty of 24 offences. Shaw and Cupitt were found guilty of injuring a badger, attempting to take a badger, using metal tongues to take a badger, digging for a badger, using a dog to hunt for a badger, cruelty to animals and badger fighting. They were fined £150 on each badger charge, and £50 for each charge of cruelty to a badger. Napier and Osbourne were fined £100 on each of the above charges and £50 on the cruelty charges. A fifth person Mr Brian Burton of Lings Farm, Rempstone was found not guilty of the above and awarded costs of £1000.
Name – Cutherbertson Andrew
Address – Elmes Drive, Morecambe
Convicted – 25/8/83
Fine – £80 and £20 costs
Magistrates – Appleby
Age/D.O.B – 22
Also convicted – Peter Doey and James Ellison
Notes – Caught 16/5/83. Found guilty of unlawfully digging for badgers.
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