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Scottish gamekeeper convicted for causing unnecessary suffering to trapped magpies

Message from Raptor Persecution UK Press release from Scottish SPCA (7th March 2023): Penicuik man receives ban from keeping animals for five years after trapping and killing magpies Alexander Hamilton was sentenced to a five-year ban from owning and keeping animals and 100 hours of community service at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Tuesday, 5 March. …

A Hunt Sab : My Saturday

16th February 2024 Inspired by Gregg Wallace’s recent article, a Hunt Sab talks us through their typical Saturday. 7.00am I wake up, get a coffee and breakfast and check messages relating to the day’s sabbing plans. I charged my equipment the night before: camcorder, radio, phone, body camera, so I pack it all away in a …

Part-time gamekeeper Timothy Hall and his son Lewis Hall avoid custodial sentence for laundering of wild peregrines in Scotland

Thanks to Raptor Persecution UK for the info 12th February 2024 Breaking news…. Part-time gamekeeper Timothy Hall, 48, and his son, Lewis Hall, 23, appeared at Jedburgh Sheriff Court this morning for sentencing after they earlier pleaded guilty to the illegal laundering of wild peregrines which they’d stolen from sites across southern Scotland (see here for previous …

Hunt Saboteurs Association Tip off Hotline

The HSA now have a tip-off hotline that you can contact in strict confidence! If you have some information about a hunt or have seen a hunt please get in touch, someone will respond to you as soon as possible 07443  148426.  

Gamekeeper set his dogs on foxes and badgers and filmed the carnage.

Many thanks to UK Animal Cruelty Files for the post CONVICTED (2023) | gamekeeper Ryan Martin, born 28 August 2000, of Balmanno Cottages, Marykirk, Laurencekirk AB30 1US – set his dogs on foxes and badgers and filmed the carnage. Ryan Martin, who is a father, uploaded twisted social media videos of his dogs killing badgers and …

Two-thirds of confirmed illegal killings of birds of prey last year linked to shooting estates

From Channel 4 News 23rd November 2023 Around two-thirds of the confirmed illegal killings of birds of prey last year are linked to shooting estates. That's according to the RSPB's latest report on bird crime, which we can exclusively reveal. Buzzards, red kites, goshawks, hen harriers, peregrine falcons and white-tailed eagles have all fallen victim …

Van Cutsem’s gamekeeper convicted of having offensive weapon but all charges of alleged wildlife crime ‘withdrawn’

Article from Raptor Persecution UK 17th October 2023 Two gamekeepers who work on William van Cutsem’s Hilborough Estate in Norfolk appeared at Norwich Magistrates Court this morning to face a number of charges of alleged wildlife crime. Dominic Green, 35, of Cockley Cley Road, Hilborough, Thetford and William Richardson, 22, of Nethergate Street, Hopton, near …

Britain’s pheasant shooting season has begun. And a year-round massacre makes it possible

6th October 2023 George Monbiot Class politics is nowhere more visible than in the protected slaughter of game, with disastrous effects on our countryside. It’s one of the bluntest expressions of class power in the United Kingdom. Like all expressions of class power, it has become normalised until we treat it as a fixed fact …

David Scott convicted of ‘catalogue of animal abuse’ whilst employed as Head Gamekeeper at Cabrach Estate

Thanks to Raptor Persecution UK for the post 18th September 2023 A man has been convicted of carrying out a ‘catalogue of animal abuse’ whilst employed as the Head Gamekeeper at Cabrach Estate in Morayshire. David Scott, 34, appeared at Elgin Sheriff Court on 15 September to answer charges relating to the alleged neglect of …