Two men are to appear in court over allegations that a fox was killed illegally on a hunt in Suffolk.
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A man who assaulted two charity workers monitoring a hunt has been given a suspended sentence after Princess Diana’s eldest sister vouched for him.
Richard Tierney, Robert Tierney and Roger Marley are charged with affray, with Marley also charged with Actual bodily harm (ABH).
Wynnstay Hunt says dogs strayed away from the rest of the pack
The alleged offences are said to have been committed at Weeton, North Yorkshire during a meet of the Badsworth and Bramham Moor Hunt.
Clair Bellamy of the Lauderdale Hunt was charged last year for alleged breaches to fox hunting rules.
Police in Northamptonshire are trying to trace them in connection with a suspected hare hunting incident.
The five people were first arrested in two years ago on suspicion of animal cruelty at the hunt’s kennels in Wormelow.
Stuart Harrison, huntsman of the Claro Beagles, appeared before Harrogate Magistrates Court on 3rd May 2018, charged with hunting of a hare.
George Grant (57), the hunt’s terrier man, and his 25-year-old son Thomas Grant, pleaded guilty to charges of grievous bodily harm.
Retired huntsman George Adams (66) was convicted of using hounds to kill the fox on January 1 2016.
Nigel Smith was filmed going to retrieve the fox – carrying a net and a bag – on the day the Belvoir Hunt were due to meet nearby.
West Yorkshire Police are investigating alleged badger sett blocking during a meet of the Badsworth and Bramham Moor Hunt..
Chris Makin is the managing director of Makin Enterprises which owns Leeds East Airport at Church Fenton.
Hunt terrierman Darren Leslie Fisher, 30, from Castleford, West Yorkshire, was jailed for 23 months in total.
Footage has emerged of Hutley, joint master of the Surrey Union Hunt, allegedly brandishing a whip at a protester while out riding in Surrey.
The attack happened while the saboteurs were monitoting the Badsworth and Bramham Moor Hunt close to Church Fenton.
Authorities removed five lurcher-type dogs from father and son duo John “Mint” Murray, 60, and John Junior, 37, after raiding their home in Larkhall, Lanarkshire.
A petition seeking to remove the Chairman of Kent Wildlife Trust has hit 4,500 signatures since its launch on June 17.
Tory MP Mark Spencer and Michael Gove, the newly appointed secretary of state at Defra, attended a meeting of farmers including a convicted terrierman.