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Gary Kendall

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Jul 8, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/8/96
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The Electronic Telegraph Monday July 8 1996

Protesters blamed for bird deaths

ANIMAL rights protesters are being blamed for the deaths of more than
1,000 young pheasants which were being reared for the shooting season.

Most of the birds starved to death after escaping when security doors
to a pen on the Wherwell Estate, near Andover, Hants, were smashed.

Lights and heating elements in the unit were destroyed and many of the
others died from suffocation after huddling together for warmth.

Eric Hall, 57, who reared the chicks and discovered the incident,
said: "This was callous, cruel and wicked. I am still finding dead
birds."

Lord Camden, who runs the estate, said: "If it was animal rights
people and their idea was to protect animals, it has resulted in far
more birds dying than would ever have been shot. What they did was a
great deal more cruel than those people who shoot them."

Police are investigating.
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