Re: Bird flu vet IS NOT dying in hospital
Derek Moody
<daveful...@hyphenologist.co.uk> wrote:
>On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:48:29 GMT, Pun Krocker <Pap...@TheMoon.blah> wrote:
>
>|!On 07/02/2007 at 16:41:58 Moebius wrote :
>|!> Well they did more damage than good for whatever cause they might have been
>|!> trying to push.
>|!
>|!That's what I think.
>|!Their cause is probably a good one, the way they go about it is stupid.
>|!Flooding groups with _old_ news_ and _lies_ will not add numbers to
>|!their ranks :(
>
>Yes almost as good as blackmail, arson and digging up bodies.
>Typical animal rights tricks
>Dave Fawthrop <da...@hyphenologist.co.uk>
>20,000 free e-books at Project Gutenberg! http://www.gutenberg.org
>For Yorkshire Dialect go to www.hyphenologist.co.uk/songs/
>also PG Nos 2888, 3232, 17472, 17799
That's not nice Dave aka Andy Mabbett, is it? Nor is dragging your fav
groups into disrepute!
I'll be posting some efforts by pro hunt extremists to intimidate
animal rights advocates, for your delight.
Enjoy.
Derek Moody
http://nwhsa.redblackandgreen.net/vermin_patrol_2006_part_3.html
Badgers
Five men who deny terrorising a badger sett with dogs, have been
banned from taking their dogs more than a mile from their home. The
five are also accused of failing to properly treat their injured dogs.
They are one of the first groups in Scotland to be charged under the
Protection of Badgers Act 1992. On 22/9/06 Kevin Andrews (28) of
Hurlford, Adam Lennon (21) of Kilmarnock and Greig Withers (21) of
Kilmarnock, all Ayrshire, along with Scott Collins (19) of West Calder
and Derek Kelly (22) of Bathgate, both West Lothian, all deny charges
under the badger protection act, the protection of wild mammals act
and the protection of animals act. They are accused of digging into a
sett sending a dog into it, disturbing a badger, deliberately hunting
a wild animal and blocking the sett. Scott Collins also faces charges
of failing to get veterinary help for his two dogs, causing them
unnecessary suffering. Lennon and Withers are also charged with
causing their dogs unnecessary suffering by baiting a badger. They
also face charges of causing dogs unnecessary suffering and failing to
get veterinary help for them. Trial was set for 7/12/06.
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Bloodsports
On 5/9/06 Andy Ross (66) of Huntingdon, died in a shooting accident
when he was hit in the head with his own shotgun on Mormond Hill near
Fraserburgh. He was part of an organised shoot with his son and some
friends.
On the 14/9/06 the last of the six policemen charged with attacking
bloodsports demonstrators was cleared. They were accused of offences
ranging from assault to GBH following the Countryside Alliance's demo
outside Parliament in September 2004. Assistant Commissioner Tarique
Ghaffur said: "These officers policed a very long and very difficult
demonstration. "They were faced with a hard core of protesters who
were both determined and violent, uninterested in lawful protest and
intent on breaking barriers to gain entry in to the Houses of
Parliament. "Police officers - doing what is essentially their job -
were faced with a barrage of missiles that included fireworks,
sections of scaffolding and barriers. "Sixty police officers were
injured that day, mainly as a result of crowd action.
On 16/9/06 hunt supporter Jeffrey Poulton (39) of Llandewi Fach,
Builth Wells was cleared of robbing and assaulting anti-hunt
protesters. Poulton had denied robbery and two charges of common
assault. A jury at Swansea Crown Court cleared him of robbery and one
of the common assault charges. The judge cleared Poulton of the second
assault charge after the jury could not reach a verdict. Anti-hunt
protesters were filming the Golden Valley Hunt when it is alleged
Poulton had grabbed one by the right leg without warning and pulled
him off the bonnet, sending him crashing onto the road injuring his
elbow and leg. Then, he told the court Poulton had kicked the
camcorder across the road. He added when one of them quared up to
Poulton he was struck on the back of the neck. When another protested
at Poulton "walking off" with the camera she was grabbed by the
throat, he said.
Two members of Quantock Staghounds accused of breaching the Hunting
Act appeared at Taunton Deane magistrates on 22/9/06.The hearing,
involving huntsman Richard Downs and whipper-in Adrian Pullivant, was
adjourned in their absence until 5/10/06 at the same court.
One of the Queen's gamekeepers is to stand trial on charges of setting
an illegal trap to catch birds of prey on the Sandringham estate. Dean
Wright (26) of Keeper's Cottage, in Amner, on the Sandringham estate
appeared before King's Lynn magistrates on 23/9/06 to deny three
wildlife cruelty charges while working on the estate in Norfolk.
Magistrates were told that Wright is charged with setting a spring
trap calculated to cause bodily injury to any wild bird coming into
contact with it, and with using the trap. A third charge alleges that
he "wantonly or unreasonably" set a trap illegally in the open air,
causing unnecessary suffering to a tawny owl. All three offences are
alleged to have happened at Shernborne, an area of woodland and fields
where pheasants shoots are held. The CPS dropped two charges accusing
Wright of failing to remove the bodies of rats poisoned with
pesticide. He was ordered to stand trial before a district judge on
10/1/07.
A hunt supporter was found guilty of attacking a campaigner who was
filming a hunt. Christopher Marles (44) of Farringdon, near Exeter,
repeatedly punched a hunt monitor with the International Fund for
Animal Welfare. He denied assault at a meet of the Devon and Somerset
Staghounds. On 27/9/06 Exeter Crown Court heard that the hunt monitor
suffered a bleeding face as well as a black eye during the attack. On
23/10/06 Marles who is also a farmer was was ordered to pay £2,500
compensation and jailed for nine months, suspended for two years.
24 men and a youth appeared in court over allegations surrounding an
alleged illegal dog fight in Birmingham. At Birmingham magistrates on
3/10/06 Farid Mohammed (26) Ikhlaq Mohammed (28) Imran Arif (28) Majid
Musthtaq (27) Nabeel Mohammed Safdar (24) Sohail Hussain (27) Ansar
Ayub (32) Asif Hussain (33) Atif Farhan Tariq (26) Amanat Ali (40)
Yasser Mohammed Khalid (26) Zahir Ahmed (30) Akil Habib Khan (26)
Naveed Arif (32) Nisar Khan (31) Sajid Saed Shah (26) Sheraz Hassan
(27) Nadeem Arif (33) and Basharat Ali (33) are all accused of being
at a property in Alum Rock Road without reasonable excuse when dogs
were placed together for the purpose of fighting. Barkat Hussain (41)
Zahoor Ahmed Hussain (41) Intikab Hussain (30) and a 17-year-old youth
face the same charge, as well as a charge of causing unnecessary
suffering to two pit-bull terrier dogs by causing them to fight and
another of causing, procuring or assisting at the fighting of two
dogs. Mamoon Iftikar Ahmed (23) and Ummar Iftikar Ahmed (25) are also
jointly charged with assisting in the management of premises for dog
fighting.
A pub landlord and bloodsports supporter has been fined after being
convicted of threatening a cameraman at one of the UK leading
partridge shoots. Richard Clarke (48) who is the landlord of The Green
Man, London Road, Six Mile Bottom fired a volley of abuse at Michael
Huskisson who was filming the event at Six Mile Bottom. On 5/10/06 Ely
magistrates heard that he then pushed Mr Huskisson into a car.
Magistrates found Clarke guilty of assault and threatening behaviour
fined him £250 and £364 in costs. Clarke is the chairman of the
National Gamekeepers' Organisation had denied any offence. Mr
Huskisson, told magistrates that he filmed the shoot, from a public
road. Clarke then walked over to him, called him a "pervert" and then
unleashed a volley of foul language. Clarke then hit his camera with a
stick and punched him, causing him to fall back on to the side of his
car.
Two hunt supporters have pleaded not guilty to illegally hunting deer
in Somerset. Richard Downs and Adrian Pullivant appeared at Taunton
Deane magistrates on 5/10/06 accused of breaching the Hunting Act. The
pair, both members of the Quantock Stag Hounds and from Bagborough,
Somerset, are charged with hunting deer with dogs. The case, which was
brought by the League Against Cruel Sports, was adjourned.
On 10/10/06 six men were charged in connection with the shooting of
protected barnacle geese in Aberdeenshire. The group, aged between 35
and 71 and from West Yorkshire, were charged with offences under the
Wildlife and Countryside Act after the carcasses of seven of the
protected birds were recovered following an organised shoot near
Ellon.
On 15/10/06 two more Somerset huntsmen have been charged with
breaching hunting laws. Master of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds
Maurice Scott (63) from Watchet, is charged with two counts of hunting
a wild mammal with dogs. Peter Heard (23) a hunt servant from Exford,
faces one charge. The alleged breaches are said to have taken place on
Exmoor. On 19/10/06 Taunton magistrates adjourned the case. Both men
are on bail.
On 16/10/06 at Chester magistrates Mark Walsh (18) from Netherton,
Liverpool and Terence Williams (15) from Maghull pleade guilty to
hunting with dogs. The pair were caught in Great Barrow, Cheshire with
spades and six dogs. Walsh was fined £500 and ordered of pay costs of
£2,896.07. Williams will be sentenced at Sefton Youth court in the
near future. Both had their dogs and equipment confiscated. Also on
10/11/06 Paul Kelly (21) of Norris Green, Liverpool was fined £500
fine and £2,846.09 costs. Kelly also signed over his terrier, to be
rehoused.
Frazor Sibley of Bignor Park Road Nursery, Bignor Park Road, Bignor,
West Sussex was found guilty at Chichester magistrates on 17/10/06 of
assaulting a hunt sab during a meet of the Chiddingfold, Leconfield
and Cowdray Hunt on the last legal day of fox hunting in England and
Wales. Sibley a hunt supporter was given a two year conditional
discharge and ordered to pay £250 costs. Also see Wayne Spencer
On 21/10/06 Otis Ferry had his sentencing for drink-driving put back
so he can be judged by familiar faces.was due to be sentenced at
Gloucester magistrates after he pleaded guilty to driving while over
the limit in Cirencester. Ferry of Keeper's Cottage, Eaton Mascott,
Shrewsbury who is the master of the South Shropshire Hunt wanted the
hearing delayed until at least two of the three magistrates who heard
the first part of the case in August are available.Judge Shamim
Qureshi agreed to the request for an adjournment.
On 27/10/06 the police charged a third huntsman with breaking the ban
on hunting with dogs. Donald Summersgill, the Devon and Somerset
Staghounds huntsman, will face two charges. He will appear at Taunton
magistrates at the start of November.
MALTA: On 3/11/06 a hunter and a trapper were fined Lm1,300 (£2,000)
between them after being found guilty of breaching hunting and bird
protection regulations. Alan Spiteri (35) of Fgura was found guilty of
being in possession of a number of birds on his return from Tunisia.
He was found in possession of over 100 finches. These were packed in
PVC tubes and the majority were already dead on arrival. He was also
found in possession of a number of bird skins, including skins of a
flamingo, an osprey, an avocet, two barn owls and a great grey shrike.
Spiteri was also found guilty of inflicting cruelty to animals and
evading duty and VAT and was fined Lm1,000. Jason Grima (34) of Rabat
was fined Lm300 and conditionally discharged for a year after being
found guilty of attacking police officers and trapping birds in
Buskett, a bird sanctuary. He was also found in possession of nine
stuffed protected birds: A marsh harrier, a Montagu's harrier, two
honey buzzards, a short-eared owl, a cuckoo, a grey heron, a bee-eater
and a hoopoe.
On 14/11/06 three hunters were arrested in Northamptonshire under the
2004 Hunting Act. The three, aged 17, 23 and 35, were arrested after
police received reports of people hunting with dogs in a field. Two
men have now been released on police bail. The 17-year-old was dealt
with informally, police said. Officers also seized a 4x4 vehicle and
an estate car, which are now being forensically examined.
Danny Draper from Bampton was ordered to serve 120 hours of community
service and fined £500 when he appeared before Banbury Magistrates on
22/11/06. Draper was been banned from keeping animals for a year after
pleading guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to his dog. His
Staffordshire bull terrier-type dog was found with puncture wounds and
scars to his head, legs and chest. One of the wounds had resulted in
muscle damage and none of them had been treated by a vet. The
examining vet concluded that the wounds were consistent with having
been fighting with another dog. Draper said that his dog had
accidentally fought with another dog. He added that he didn't take his
dog to a vet because his father has a previous conviction for offences
related to dogfighting and thought it might look suspicious.
One of the Queen's gamekeepers has been fined £500 and ordered to pay
£470 costs for setting a rat trap that snared a tawny owl by mistake.
Dean Wright (26) of Anmer, Norfolk who works on the Sandringham
Estate, near King's Lynn, Norfolk, admitted committing the offence at
Shernborne. Wright appeared at King's Lynn magistrates on 23/11/06
where he denied causing unnecessary suffering to the owl caught in the
trap and the Crown Prosecution Service chose not to pursue that
charge.
On 24/11/06 several people were charged after a police crackdown on
hare coursing in the north east of Scotland. Grampian Police said four
people were charged after alleged incidents in Inverurie and near
Elgin. A 30-year-old man from Aberdeen was charged with an offence
under the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002, which makes
it illegal to hunt wild mammals with a dog. Three others were charged
with similar offences and vehicles were also confiscated.
US country singer Troy Lee Gentry (39) pleaded guilty to falsely
registering a captive bear as being killed in the wild. On 28/11/06
Gentry was fined $15,000 (£7,713) and agreed to give up hunting in the
state of Minnesota for five years. Gentry bought the bear in 2004 in
order to hunt it with a bow and arrow on a private enclosure. The
guilty plea enabled the singer to avoid a trial.
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Eggs/Birds
On 29/9/06 a man was arrested and charged in connection with the
alleged poisoning of wild birds. The arrest of the 55-year-old, from
Lauder in the Borders, follows a police raid. Officers said they had
charged him with several offences under the Wildlife and Countryside
Act 1981. The charges - said to run into double figures - are believed
to be related to the alleged use of illegal poison. The man, who was
was also been charged with culpable and reckless conduct and firearms
offences. No court date has been set.
A man has been jailed for four months after smearing glue on branches
to trap wild birds which he then kept in cages. RSPCA inspectors found
two goldfinches and a bullfinch at John Dugdale's home in Byers Green,
Spenymoor, County Durham. They also found glue in a garden shed, and
twigs prepared with a sticky substance, Newton Aycliffe magistrates
heard on 9/10/06. Dugdale (46) had earlier pleaded guilty to six
charges including possession of a wild bullfinch and a wild goldfinch.
Magistrates said they had no choice but send him to prison because he
had previous convictions for trapping and keeping wild birds. The
court also sentenced Christopher Dugdale, who shared the same home, to
70 hours of community service and he was ordered to pay £175 in costs.
He had earlier admitted five charges, including possession of a wild
goldfinch. All the birds were returned to the wild.
A owner of a stately home has denied illegally buying stuffed birds of
prey from a former museum worker who was a taxidermist. At Norwich
Crown Court on 16/10/06 Michael Barclay (68) of Hanworth Hall, near
Cromer, Norfolk, denied eight charges relating to nine birds. John
Metcalf (66) of Billesdon, Leicestershire who worked at Leicester
Museum, denies selling the birds without the required licences. Both
men committed offences under laws protecting endangered species, the
court heard. When police and the RSPB searched Barclay's home they
discovered a stuffed pair of peregrine falcons, two barn owls, a tawny
owl, a sparrowhawk, a long-eared owl, a little owl and a short-eared
owl.
On 26/10/06 Barclay was found guilty by a jury at Norwich Crown Court
of eight charges of illegally purchasing prohibited specimens of
birds. Metcalf was found guilty of eight counts of selling prohibited
species and was given a two-month prison sentence, suspended for 12
months.It emerged after the verdict that Barclay, who was also ordered
to pay £30,000 in costs, had pleaded guilty in a previous hearing to
two counts of smuggling wild bird eggs in to the country from Russia
and Norway - charges which Judge Simon Barham deemed the most
serious.Barclay also admitted four charges of possessing stuffed wild
birds and eggs, with some of the birds from a protected site on the
Scottish island of North Rona. Metcalf also pleaded guilty today to
two charges of taking a wild bird and one of disturbing a wild bird.
A bird watcher who pitched his tent too close to the nest of one of
Scotland's rarest birds could have caused a conservation disaster, a
court heard. On 9/11/06 Stirling Sheriff Court was told how Robert
Ashcroft (43) from Largs, in Ayrshire went to a remote spot to
photograph duck and red kites. Ashcroft admitted recklessly disturbing
wild birds on a nest and was fined £300.
A birdwatcher walked free from court after charges involving protected
birds of prey were found not proven. Jonathan Lingard (33) of
Whittington Road, Stourbridge, West Midlands appeared at Perth Sheriff
Court on 16/11/06. The convicted birdwatcher had denied intentionally
disturbing a golden eagle while it was in or near a nest containing
eggs or young birds. Lingard also denied carrying out a similar
offence at the same spot three days earlier. In addition, he pled not
guilty to intentionally disturbing merlins while they were in or near
a nest containing young. The charges mirrored those faced by Lingard
and his father Clive (60) when they appeared in court in England in
2005 and included one of the same nests in Perthshire. Then, the pair
received suspended jail terms and fines after admitting 12 counts of
intentionally disturbing the nests of rare birds in Perthshire and
elsewhere in Scotland. They were each fined £1500 at Redditch
Magistrates Court in relation to the disturbance of a white-tailed
eagle on the Outer Hebrides in 2002 plus costs of £750 each. For the
other offences committed in 2003 and relating to disturbing golden
eagle, white-tailed eagle, dotterel, merlin and hen harrier in
Perthshire, Mull and the Uists, they each received a concurrent
six-week custodial sentence, suspended for two years.
James Thomson (27) of Navitie Park, Ballingry who is training for a
career in conservation appeared in court for keeping a collection of
wild birds’ eggs he found as a boy. On 28/11/06 Thomson admitted
possessing the eggs after police found them in a box under his bed.
After considering the matter, he deferred sentence until 25/7/07 for
Thomson to be of good behaviour. Thomson is studying countryside
management in Forfar and also volunteers at a local conservation area,
showing children the various flora and fauna.
Pet shop Desmond Prior (40) who runs Prior's Pets, at The Stow,
Harlow, was found guilty of 14 counts of illegal possession of wild
birds including bullfinches, gold-finches, siskins, bramblings and
linnets. He was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to
pay £5,000 costs when he appeared at Southend magistrates on 30/11/06.
On 1/12/06 a man from the Elgin area was charged with numerous
offences under wildlife protection legislation, following the
discovery of poisoned birds. The 50-year-old was charged following a
joint operation which involved Grampian Police wildlife crime
officers, officials from the Scottish Executive's environment and
rural affairs department and RSPB investigators.
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Equine
Mary Williams of The Ridings, Cobham and is a prominent member of the
Bookham Riding Club, admitted causing unnecessary suffering to her
horse- but will still be allowed to keep horses. Williams has worked
with horses for more than 30 years, taking part in competitions and
organising events on behalf of the riding club. RSPCA inspectors
discovered Williams had neglected her 15-year-old chestnut mare. The
pony's horns should be trimmed every five or six weeks by a
blacksmith. But they had not been trimmed, meaning her foot had grown
to 12in long, compared to its normal length of 4in. This meant the
pony was being forced to carry around excess weight, causing extensive
damage to her ligaments. Williams, a schoolteacher, admitted causing
unnecessary suffering to an animal at Redhill magistrates on 8/11/06.
She was ordered to pay £2,498.56 costs but was given a three-year
conditional discharge. This means she is free to own and look after
horses.
A trainer and Grand National-winning jockey admitted animal cruelty
following the death of a mare. What's A Filly had to be put down after
she developed a leg infection while at Richard Guest's County Durham
stables. He admitted to Durham magistrates on 14/11/06 one charge of
causing unnecessary suffering to the animal by failing to exercise
reasonable care and supervision. Richard Guest (41) of Brancepeth
Manor Farm, was given a two-year conditional discharge and told to pay
£4,730 costs. Head lad Richard Dalton (41) and head girl Louise Tidman
(34) were also charged in connection with the mare's death, and
admitted omitting to provide veterinary care. They were also given a
two-year conditional discharge, and none of the defendants were
disqualified from keeping animals. Paul Struthers, PR manager for the
Horseracing Regulatory Authority (HRA), revealed Guest is unlikely to
have his trainer's license withdrawn.
A former vet has been banned from keeping animals for five years after
he left his Shetland pony, to suffer without treatment for overgrown
hooves and the painful foot condition laminitis. Alan Tait of of
Bentley Road, Meltham who is the owner of the pony, has been banned
from keeping animals for five years, ordered to carry out 240 hours
unpaid work in the community, and ordered to pay costs of £500 by
Manchester magistrates on 22/11/06. Tait was found guilty of causing
unnecessary suffering to the Shetland pony by failing to provide it
with veterinary care for laminitis and hoof overgrowth, and failing to
exercise reasonable care at an earlier hearing. The court heard that
Tait was suffering from depression having been struck off as a vet.
(Tait's other convictions)
Charlotte Kelway (62) of Pembrokeshire was been banned from owning
horses for three years after allowing a stallion's hooves to overgrow
by more than a metre. Kelway admitted causing unnecessary suffering
and was also fined £1,000 and told to pay £1,800 in costs by
Haverfordwest magistrates on 23/11/06. A vet found the horse had not
had its hooves trimmed for up to 10 years.
Mathew Rutland and Tanya Hatcher of Hamilton Road, Gillingham, pleaded
guilty before magistrates in Chatham on 14/12/06 to causing
unnecessary suffering to horses in their care. Rutland pleaded guilty
to three counts of causing unnecessary suffering to three horses and
was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £4,580
costs. Hatcher pleaded guilty to one count of causing unnecessary
suffering to a horse and was ordered to pay £780 costs.
Renee Springett (44) from Llansilin near Welshpool has been banned
from owning horses for life after she admitted causing unnecessary
suffering to four ponies, left malnourished and infected. Springett
admitted four charges at a hearing in Welshpool on 15/12/06. Springett
who admitted the charges was also given 240 hours community service
and ordered to pay court costs of more than £5,700.
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Assorted
Australia - On 5/9/06 a fishing boat skipper and his deckhand were
charged over the shooting of more than 40 protected fur seals. A
29-year-old man and a 19-year-old man, both from Newhaven, were
charged with 22 offences including conduct endangering life, using
firearms in a dangerous manner, aggravated cruelty, and hunting and
destroying wildlife. The charges related to an incident when dozens of
seals were found dead or dying after being allegedly shot on Kanowna
Island, within the Wilsons Promontory National Park in Victoria’s
southeast. They were charged and bailed to appear before the
Korumburra Court on 3/11/06.
Two men who were secretly filmed beating turkeys with a stick have
been ordered to do community service. Norwich magistrates were told on
7/9/06 that Daniel Palmer (27) and Neil Allan (30) both from Dereham,
Norfolk, used poles "like baseball bats" to hit turkeys. Both men
admitted causing cruelty at Bernard Matthews' Beck Farm in Felthorpe,
near Norwich. Allan said he was suffering from stress and saw it as a
form of anger release. Palmer said he was ashamed. The pair were each
ordered to complete a 200-hour community order.
A circus boss has been charged over a road accident that claimed the
lives of a mother and daughter. Stephen Courtney (35) of Earl Street
Longford denied intentionally or recklessly attaching a trailer to a
lorry which broke free. Joan Reilly and her daughter Siobhan died when
their car was hit by the trailer. On 13/9/06 Galway District Court
remanded Courtney on ball on his own surety of €1,000. She ordered him
to appear before the court on 25/9/06.
A man accused of stealing SpongeBob the squirrel monkey asked for his
case to be heard in front of a jury. Marlon Brown (22) of Brixton,
south London allegedly snatched the rare two-year-old Bolivian
squirrel monkey while on a day out at Chessington World of Adventures.
The endangered monkey, worth an estimated £2,500, was eventually found
four days later playing with a group of young children more than 13
miles away on Clapham Common in south London. Brown appeared at
Kingston-upon-Thames magistrates on 14/9/06 to face one charge of
theft. The case will return for committal at the same court on
26/10/06.
On 18/9/06 Bernard Martin McBride pleaded guilty to transporting
racing greyhounds from Ireland to the UK in cages too small to allow
the animals to stand comfortably or lie down. McBride pleaded guilty
to a transit offence in relation to ten greyhounds that were found in
small cages stacked inside a van. McBride said that he had been
unaware of the regulations, despite being in the racing greyhound
industry for 30 years and transporting dogs for six years from Ireland
to the UK. McBride was given a conditional discharge for three years
and ordered to pay £4,000 towards costs by magistrates.
A Sheffield man and a woman have been arrested in connection with the
theft of monkeys from zoos around the country.Eighteen monkeys from
zoos in East Sussex, Devon and Cambridgeshire were recovered by police
and two men were arrested.On 13/10/06 a man and a woman, both in their
30s and from Sheffield, have been arrested in connection with handling
the monkeys. Two men, both 35, from Tunstall, near Stoke-on-Trent,
were arrested on suspicion of burglary and handling stolen goods in
June. The 18 monkeys - including four of the five marmosets stolen
from Drusillas Park in East Sussex - were recovered after police raids
on two properties in Tunstall.The four people arrested are all on
police bail.
On 26/10/06 at Swansea magistrates a monkey breeder was cleared of
causing unnecessary suffering to a capuchin baby and mother that he
had separated for sale. Jason Allen (33) of West Cross, Swansea denied
causing unnecessary suffering to the animal. In his verdict, the
district judge said it was not illegal to keep or sell capuchins or
separate mother and baby. Reaching his verdict, the district judge
said he was satisfied that the case to prove suffering had been made
but that he was not convinced it was unnecessary.
On 27/10/06 a royal barber was fined £10,000 for dealing in illegal
ivory goods. Shaving brushes were among ivory items found during
searches of the Mayfair shop and other premises of , which has served
members of the royal family for 125 years. A total of 24 ivory items
were seized during searches of the George F Trumper two shops - in
Curzon Street, Mayfair, and Jermyn Street, St James's - and at its
head office in Upper Holloway, north London. Most were shaving brushes
stamped with the words "real ivory" and were on sale for prices of up
to £1,100 each. Others included hairbrushes, glove stretchers and even
an elephant tusk. At City of Westminster magistrates the company
pleaded guilty to two charges of keeping endangered species for sale.
They were fined £5,000 on each count and the ivory was confiscated.
On 3/11/06 a concrete firm was fined for dumping on wildlife park.
Easymix Concrete in Meadow Road, Sutton received the fine after a
hearing at Sutton magistrates where they pleaded guilty to depositing
the mixture at London Wildlife Trust's wetlands nature reserve in
Hackbridge. The company and its director, Steven Brown, were charged
£700 each for dumping the wash and £200 each for failing to respond to
notices served by Sutton Council. In addition to this, costs of £450
and compensation of £250 were awarded to the council.
A Belgian man who had sex with dozens of animals and then posted
photos of his acts on the internet walked free - after a court ruled
bestiality was not a crime. The Antwerp appeal court heard on 14/11/06
how the 37-year-old man from Genk, abused the beasts over a two-year
period. He was working as a volunteer at an animal sanctuary at the
time. He then put thousands of photos of his acts on the internet. But
the court ruled that the man could not be prosecuted for the acts, as
animal sex is not punishable under Belgian law. He was, however, fined
€500 euros for violating public decency legislation.
An animal sanctuary manager was sentenced to community service for
selling ponies and lambs in his care. John Watson (44) of Irthing
Park, Brampton who used to run the sanctuary owned by millionaire
Gretna FC boss Brooks Mileson, had earlier admitted theft and
deception. Carlisle Crown Court was told on 15/11/06 he went against
Mr Mileson's promise no animals at Blackford would be sold. Watson was
ordered to complete 240 hours community service and pay £250 costs.
The court had earlier heard Watson, who ran the sanctuary on Mr
Mileson's estate north of Carlisle, seriously breached his bosses'
trust by selling three Shetland ponies, two Jacob sheep, 12 lambs and
a mare. He also took £2,000 from the sanctuary's account to buy
equestrian equipment for his daughters.
Damien French who was spared jail for feeding a live rabbit to an
alligator has been sent to a young offenders' institution. French
received a suspended sentence in April for the offence at Colwyn Bay's
Welsh Mountain Zoo. He was jailed by Prestatyn magistrates on 17/11/06
for trespass with intent to burgle at Rhyl Golf Club. French, of Rhyl,
admitted the offence, and the court activated three months of the
suspended sentence and imposed a further month.
A man who claimed he killed a swan because he was hungry on the second
day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan has been jailed for two
months. Shamshu Miah (52) from Llandudno was released because of the
time he has already spent in custody. On 22/11/06 he admitted
intentionally killing a wild bird at Llandudno boating pool and
possessing a kitchen knife in public.
On 24/11/06 a private investigator from Preston has admitted to
harassing a woman, and as a result has been fined £80. Anthony Gerard
Fisher sent an animal welfare campaigner, a string of malicious text
messages in September this year. These abusive and threatening
messages were reported to Chorley Police who traced them to Anthony
Gerard Fisher (44) who is a director of A.G.F. Law Services, Chapel
Lane, New Longton, Preston.
On 28/11/06 Keith Ashworth (65) from Longsight, Manchester admitted a
catalogue of offences which included one count of child rape, two
others of attempted child rape, including one against a boy under five
and one of having sex with an animal. The animal involved was his pet
collie dog, which he filmed as it had sex with him. As well as
admitting 12 sex offences, Ashworth asked for a further 57 offences to
be taken into consideration, some relating to his personal computer
collection of 3,000 obscene images. Ashworth had worked as a handyman
and has been a regular holiday visitor to West Cumbria for the past 20
years, in recent years staying at a static caravan park in Braystones,
near Egremont. He committed the offences between June 1994 and July of
this year, the court heard. Ashworth will be sentenced on 23/3/07
after psychiatric and background reports have been prepared. He was
put on the Sex Offenders' Register.
On 29/11/06 Stephen Courtney (35) Earl Street, Longford town, Co
Longford, pleaded guilty to the charge that he intentionally or
recklessly engaged in conduct which allowed a trailer to be attached
to a lorry unit and another trailer in a defective manner, thereby
causing the trailer to become detached. Circus lorry driver, Francisco
Daria (23) a Venezuelan national with addresses in Cherry Wood Park,
Dublin, and San Lodovico, Sio Saliceto, Italy, who had also denied two
counts of dangerous driving also changed his plea to that of guilty.
The judge discharged the jury and adjourned sentencing in the case to
19/12/06. The lorry was driven by Daria while Circus Vegas is wned by
John and Stephen Courtney.
Paul Dunn (52) from Bredbury, Stockport threatened a police officer
with two boa constrictor snakes in Greater Manchester was given a
two-year conditional discharge. Dunn denied two charges of affray and
common assault but pleaded guilty to using threatening behaviour. On
6/12/06 Manchester Crown Court heard how Dunn had become violent when
police tried to remove two of his dogs. The judge ordered that the
other offences lie on file. Police had been issued with a warrant to
remove two of the dogs, but when Dunn became angry the officers
decided to search the rest of the property. While searching the garage
the officers found 40 reptile tanks containing more than 100 snakes,
along with rats, lizards and a tortoise, and decided to call the
RSPCA. The court was told that Dunn became angry and told the police
officers to take the lot. He then picked up two snakes and threatened
the officers.
On 8/12/06 vet Alan Tait was convicted of two drink driving offences
and was banned from driving for three years. Huddersfield Magistrates
heard that Tait had been caught drink driving and drunk in charge of a
vehicle by police twice. He was banned from driving for 36 months, but
that will be reduced by nine months if he successfully completes a
drink drive rehabilitation course, which he agreed to do. He was also
given a community supervision order for 18 months. Tait was also
convicted of having no insurance, but no separate penalty was imposed.
He will also have to pay prosecution costs of £200. At Manchester
magistrates Tait was sentenced to do 240 hours unpaid community work
and also banned from keeping any animals for five years. He had been
convicted in his absence of two counts of causing the pony unnecessary
suffering. Tait was struck off in 2003 for by the Royal College of
Veterinary Surgeons - for claiming for work he hadn't carried out. At
Manchester Crown Court in May 2006 he was given a suspended six-month
jail sentence for continuing to practise in Oldham while banned.
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Farm Animals (Guardians Of The Land - My Arse!!!)
A farmer caught neglecting his animals for a second time was let off
with a caution on 1/10/06. Richard Baskerville (66) of Annan,
Dumfriesshire, had eight starving calves and six goats. One later
died. He was halfway through a 10-year order banning him from keeping
animals. He kept them in a rented shed which had tiny wooden cages
behind it. In 2001, Baskerville was convicted of cruelty to sheep at
his farm in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, and the animal ban was imposed.
Three years later, he breached the order by keeping a goat.
A Llyn sheep farmer, who pleaded guilty to a total of nine animal
cruelty charges, has been ordered to pay a total of £8,200 in fines,
plus £1,762.50 in prosecution costs. Magistrates at Pwllheli heard on
4/10/06 that Owen Arfon Jones (43) of Bron Miod, Llanaelhaearn had a
number of rotting sheep carcasses on his land. They also checked out
150 sheep and lambs, and found 70% of them lame, with evidence of foot
rot. Jones entered pleas of guilty at a previous hearing to four
charges of wantonly or unreasonably causing unnecessary suffering to
sheep and lambs, also one charge of possessing the decomposed remains
of an animal, one charge of possessing the mummified remains of an
animal, and three charges of failing to keep proper movement records.
An organic farmer killed off hundreds of wildlife species in a
conservation area deemed to be a site of special scientific interest,
a court heard on 12/10/06. A single insect was all that managed to
survive after Timothy Bruges (59) of Laighwood Farm in Dunkeld,
Perthshire let toxic sheep-dip poison a protected loch adjacent to his
farm. Bruges was fined £600 at Perth Sheriff Court. Bruges admitted he
let synthetic pyrethoroid sheep dip enter a burn running into the loch
by way of a drain.
On 20/10/06 farmer Martin McAndrew of Cornhill, Pollatomas north Mayo
was convicted of animal cruelty and was sentenced to 28 days' jail -
while the State confiscates the entire stock of his farm. McAndrew had
earlier been ordered to dispose of all of his cattle and sheep within
six weeks. But when he appeared again before Belmullet District Court
he agreed he still had 25 sheep and 25 cattle, as well as "four pet
sheep". The judge fined McAndrew €500 for "cruel ill-treatment of a
cow" and €200 for littering and sentenced him to 28 days's jail so
officials could confiscate the remaining animals. Recognisance in the
event of an appeal was fixed at €3,000.
On 27/10/06 Llandrindod magistrates handed out a jail sentence to a
Rhayader farming couple banned for life from keeping sheep, cattle and
pigs after causing unnecessary suffering to sheep on their farm.
Farmer Thomas Steven John Breese (64) of Cwmderw, Pantydwr, was jailed
for 11 weeks. His wife Elizabeth (63) was told: “While he was in
prison you will be deemed to have sole responsibility. If you are
brought before the court again you can guess what the consequences
will be.” At an earlier hearing at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court, the
Breeses lost an appeal against their conviction and were given seven
days to clear all livestock off their land. The court was told sheep
at the farm had to be destroyed by vets because they were emaciated,
anaemic, had lice and were too weak to stand. The court was also told
both Mr and Mrs Breese have previously been subject to banning orders.
Mr Breese was banned from keeping bovine animals and sheep for five
years in 2001, and Mrs Breese was banned from having custody of bovine
animals for five years in 2004. The judge dismissed the appeal on four
charges relating to four specific animals, and ordered the couple to
pay £5,500 costs at £500 month. At Llandrindod, Mr Breese was ordered
to continue to pay the £250-a-month half share of that. Mrs Breese was
ordered to continue to pay her half share, plus an additional £400
costs imposed by Llandrindod magistrates, still at £250 a month. Her
existing community order for unpaid work was revoked, and a new one of
200 hours imposed.
A farmer who single-handedly slaughtered almost 4,000 pigs after a
banned food additive was discovered on his farm was ordered to pay
over €71,000 in fines and legal costs. Pig farmer Thomas Galvin from
Ballinamuck, Dungarvan, Co Waterford denied 29 charges brought against
him. Galvin was found guilty of a string of offences including the
movement of pigs onto and off restricted lands following the discovery
of a highly toxic additive, Carbadox, in April 2002. The court also
heard how pigs taken from the restricted area eventually made it onto
supermarket shelves. On 4/11/06 at Clonmel District Court Galvin was
also found guilty of obstructing and impeding an SIU officer. The
judge convicted Galvin on 19 charges. He imposed fines totalling
€15,200 and a five-month suspended prison sentence. Galvin was also
ordered to pay over €56,000 in costs.
On 7/11/06 John Bass (60) of Linnet Drive, Rippingale was found guilty
of nine charges of causing unnecessary suffering to a pig, two dogs, a
hedgehog, a pigeon, a pheasant and 151 sheep. Sadly, the pig, two
sheep, the pigeon and the hedgehog had to be destroyed. During the
trial the court heard how the hedgehogs were kept in "tiny and
filthy"' plastic containers and 149 sheep were kept in a greenhouse.
He was released on bail and will be sentenced at Grantham magistrates
on 1/12/06.
Farmer Mark Skitt (32) of Brynhyfryd, New Cross farmer pleaded guilty
to four charges of causing unnecessary suffering, four charges of
causing unnecessary distress and three charges of failing to dispose
of animal carcasses. Skitt, whose farm is Brynyreglwys at Llanybydder,
was warned by magistrates on 24/11/06 that the offences were so
serious they could send him to prison. Skitt will be sentenced on
8/12/06.
A father and son who allowed sick calves to live among rotting
carcasses. On 30/11/06 at Carlisle magistrates Ian Christopher
Littleton (56) of Ladysteps, Scotby, admitted causing unnecessary
suffering to six calves by failing to seek appropriate veterinary
advice on disease prevention and control, failing to dispose of more
than 26 calves and 14 chickens without delay and allowing livestock to
have access to the carcasses. His son, Steven John Littleton (26) of
Burble Farm, Southwaite, admitted permitting unnecessary suffering to
be caused to six calves by failing to seek veterinary advice on
disease prevention and control, failing to dispose of in excess of 26
calves and 14 chickens and allowing livestock to have access to the
carcasses. He also admitted supplying a weaned bull to sale with an
incorrect ear tag. Ian Littleton was sentenced to a total of four
months for causing unnecessary suffering and failing to dispose of the
carcasses, with two months to be served concurrently for allowing
animals to have access to the carcasses. He was also banned from
keeping cattle for 10 years. Steven Littleton was given a three month
sentence for failing to dispose of carcasses and allowing the animals
to have access to the carcasses. There was no order for costs.
Farmer George Albert Jopling (76) whose family have been farming in
County Durham for five generations, was fined £3,000 and ordered to
pay costs of more than £1,760 at Bishop Auckland magistrates on
5/12/06 after 36 sheep and cattle were found dead at High Farm,
Eastgate, in Weardale. Jopling pleaded guilty to 19 charges relating
to the treatment of animals, including two of failing to provide
water, seven of failing to ensure their welfare, and five of failing
to dispose of the carcasses of his black Limousin cows. He also
admitted five charges of not disposing of sheep carcasses.
On 7/12/06 a Shetland sheep farmer has pleaded not guilty to 25
charges of breaking the rules on the movement of sheep which may be
infected with scrapie. Bryden Nicolson (34) of Garth Farm, in Graven,
Mossbank, is accused of shifting 4,750 sheep, including ewes, lambs
and one ram, between various holdings in breach of transmissible
spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) regulations. He is also charged with
moving sheep without the necessary documentation and without informing
Scottish Ministers. The trial is set for 1/3/07.
On 9/12/06 farmer Alan Owen of Canerw Farm, Login, near Whitland in
Carmarthenshire was fined £800 after slurry leaked into a river
killing thousands of fish. Owen pleaded guilty to two counts of
pollution at Carmarthen Magistrates. He also had to pay £700 costs.
Pig farmer Richard Read (52) of Decoy Farm in Sedge Fen near
Lakenheath has been told to carry out 240 hours of community service
after welfare inspectors found six of his animals dead and dying in
deep slurry. Read pleaded guilty to six counts of cruelty and one of
neglect, sentencing magistrates at Bury St Edmunds heard on 19/12/06.
Magistrates ordered Read to pay just over £1,500 in costs to the RSPCA
and in addition to his community service order he was banned from
keeping pigs for life.
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Domestic
A couple who kept two German Shepherd dogs in appalling conditions, in
a ramshackle shelter without bedding in freezing conditions, have been
banned from keeping any animal for the rest of their lives. Tony
Watkins (48) of County Road, March admitted failing to provide both
dogs with an adequate diet, suitable living conditions, or veterinary
treatment. Barbara Harris (43) of the same address had denied those
allegations but was convicted after a trial at Wisbech magistrates on
7/9/06. Harris was ordered to pay £240 costs and Watkins must pay £100
costs.
Ryan MacDonald (33) from Hay Avenue, Niddrie was banned from keeping
animals for life after pleading guilty to causing unnecessary
suffering to an animal. He was also fined £200 when he appeared at
Edinburgh Sheriff Court on 7/9/06.
At Gateshead Magistrates on 12/9/06 Geoffrey Carruthers (65) of
Dovedale Gardens, Beacon Lough, Gateshead, was sentenced to four
months in prison and banned him from keeping animals for life after
his 14-year-old boxer dog, had to be put down due to a severe back
wound, which left the animal's tail hanging by a thread of tissue.
On 13/9/06 Lynda Cairns (55) of Kidderminster Road in Sunderland was
jailed for four months after trying to drown a puppy in boiling water.
At Sunderland, a magistrate was reduced to tears as she heard how a
ten-week old puppy lingered in agony for a week after Lynda Cairns
tried to kill the unwanted pet. Cairns admitted cruelty and abandoning
a puppy. Cairns' son, David (21) admitted abandoning the still living
puppy, and her daughter, Lianne (19) pleaded guilty to not seeking
proper care and attention for the puppy. Lianne Cairns (below right)
was given a conditional discharge for two years, disqualified from
keeping a dog for two years and must pay £525 costs. David Cairns
(below center) was given a two-year supervision order with 100 hours
community service, was banned from keeping a dog for ten years and
must pay £525 costs. Lynda Cairns (below left) was jailed for four
months and was banned from keeping a dog indefinitely.
A US serviceman who slashed his wife's pet dog's throat after she said
she was leaving has been jailed for 18 weeks. Dustin Yandell (21)
killed the golden Labrador and dumped its body in a bin outside his
home in Newmarket. At Bury St Edmunds magistrates on 18/9/06 Yandell,
who is based at RAF Lakenheath, in Suffolk, admitted causing
unnecessary suffering to a dog. Yandell was also banned from keeping
animals for life.
A mother and her daughter pleaded guilty to six counts of animal
cruelty walked free from court on 21/9/06. Lynda Hyham (43) of St
John's Avenue, Fleetwood, and Joanne Hyham (19) of Osborne Road, South
Shore, were each handed four-month prison sentences suspended for 12
months. They were each ordered to pay £250 costs and banned for life
from keeping animals. Both defendants were placed on a supervision
order and ordered to enrol on the Think First programme – a
rehabilitation project. Two rabbits and one lurcher dog were found
dead by RSPCA inspectors.
A couple who let 10 dogs starve and rot in their own filth for half a
year have been placed under continuous supervision for one year under
a bond of €100 and banned for life from ever keeping animals. Anthony
and Susan Coote from Harbour Street, Mountmellick, Co Laois who
starved three adult Rottweiler dogs and seven Rottweiler pups, were
handed the probationary sentence on 14/10/06 after paying €6,150 in
fines to the ISPCA. Both pleaded guilty to the charge of cruelty to
the animals when they appeared at Portlaoise District Court.
Sean O'Neill (22) of Hamilton Street, Deptford threw a kitten out of
an eighth-floor flat was been banned from owning animals for 10 years.
O'Neill appeared at Greenwich magistrates on 18/10/06 and was given a
56-day suspended sentence for throwing the kitten to its death. He had
denied the offence but was ordered to do 200 hours' community service
and pay £800 court costs.
A couple whose dog died after being left in a car on a hot summer's
day have been ordered to pay £5,000. College lecturer Paul Wadsworth
(33) and his RAF nurse wife Aisling (32), of Alderlands Close in
Crowland near Peterborough left two dogs in a car. At Swindon
magistrates on 18/10/06 the court heard how the pair of Newfoundlands
were left for more than four hours in temperatures reaching the
mid-30s degrees celsius. The couple pleaded guilty to one charge of
unreasonably confining an animal in a vehicle and subjecting it to
such heat that it suffered heat stroke and one similar charge relating
to the animal which died. The Wadsworths were each fined £750 for each
offence and ordered to pay costs of £1030 each.
A couple have been banned from keeping pets for 10 years after being
found guilty of causing suffering to their two dogs. In addition to
the bans, Christine Angel and Paul Morton were ordered to do 250 hours
of community service and pay £50 costs after pleading guilty to
causing unnecessary suffering to two dogs when they appeared at Milton
Keynes magistrates 20/10/06.
An Earlsfield couple were found guilty of causing and permitting
unnecessary suffering to a dog, which was left with a broken leg after
being badly beaten. Maurice and Nancy Burley of Wandle Way appeared
before South West magistrates, Clapham Junction on 20/10/06 accused of
committing offences against the dog. Maurice Burley was convicted of
carrying out the abuse and Nancy Burley of the lesser charge of
failing to prevent it.The court heard how Maurice Burley was seen
lifting the dog above his head and throwing it to the ground. He had
also been seen kicking and beating the animal. Maurice Burley was
released on conditional bail and will be sentenced on 10/11/06. Nancy
Burle was fined £500.
William (30) and Claire Morris (26) of Iveagh Close, Benwell, Bishop
Auckland, County Durham, appeared at West Allerdale magistrates Court
on 21/10/06 and admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a rabbit and
three chickens by not giving them food or water. They also pleaded
guilty to a further charge of causing unnecessary suffering to the
chickens by not giving them reasonable care and supervision. The
couple also appeared in court in August where they were on trial for
causing unnecessary suffering to two cross breed dogs. They were found
guilty after the court heard that the dogs had suffered for a minimum
of a week after the couple went on holiday, leaving them in a shed
without food or water. The district judge told the couple he was
considering a prison sentence and he adjourned the case for reports
until 17/11/06.
Morag Jackson (46) and Ian Jackson (67) from Upper Auchnagorth, New
Byth ran an illegal dog-breeding business at their north-east
farmhouse were fined nearly £1,400 on 25/10/06. The business was run
"as a hobby" by Morag Jackson but it was her husband's responsibility
to look after the animals.They appeared at Banff Sheriff Court where
Morag Jackson pleaded guilty to a single charge of failing to have a
breeding licence. Ian Jackson admitted nine counts of causing
unnecessary suffering to many of the 33 adult dogs and 25 pups by
failing to provide them with suitable accommodation, shelter from the
weather and proper bedding. Ian Jackson still has a flock of around
700 sheep. Sheriff Patrick Davies told Ian Jackson he would be fined
£110 for every charge of causing his animals suffering - a total of
£990. Morag Jackson was fined £300 for failing to get a licence, plus
an extra £100 for a separate charge of resisting arrest.
At Calderdale magistrates on 26/10/06 Gerald Williams (53) of
Blackburn Buildings, off Wakefield Road, Brighouse,appeared charged
with two counts of animal cruelty. Williams, who works for the
Citizens’ Advice Bureau, was banned from keeping animals for life, he
was given an 18-month supervision order and ordered to pay £1,000
costs. The court was told that RSPCA inspectors visited William’s home
six times before he responded to their requests to take the dogs to a
vet. The dogs have been now re-homed.
Maurice and Nancy Burley of Wandle Way, Earlsfield appeared at South
West magistrates, Clapham Junction, on 29/10/06 where they were both
found guilty of causing and allowing unnecessary suffering to their
pet dog. Maurice Burley was convicted of carrying out the abuse and
Nancy Burley of the lesser charge of failing to prevent it. The police
were called when two independent witnesses saw Maurice Burley lifting
the dog above his head and throwing it to the ground. He had also been
seen kicking and beating the dog. Maurice Burley was released on
conditional bail and will be sentenced on 10/11/06. Nancy Burley was
fined £500.
On 1/11/06 Dean Harvey (30) of Dane Terrace, Rowley Regis was banned
for life from keeping animals after a court heard how he twisted a
small kitten so hard he split its spleen. Harvey pleaded not guilty at
a previous hearing to causing unnecessary suffering or ill-treatment
to a kitten, but the case was found proved. Along with the animal ban,
he was given a 12-month community order by magistrates at West
Bromwich and ordered to complete 150 hours' unpaid work and to pay
£200 costs. His sister, Janet Harvey (38) of Hilton Road, Tividale,
who owned the kitten and had failed to have it looked at, previously
pleaded guilty to the same charge. She was banned from keeping animals
for seven years, given a 12 months community order and ordered to
complete 40 hours unpaid work and pay £100 costs.
Callum Myers (18) faces jail after feeding a pet cat to his dog in
Huddersfield. Myers of Ibbotson Flats, Southgate, Huddersfield, had
pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a domestic cat. On
2/11/06 Huddersfield magistrates heard how Myers picked the cat off a
fence and lowered it to his Staffordshire bull terrier. The incident
was captured on CCTV cameras owned by local resident. The case was
adjourned until 21/11/06 when sentencing will take place.
Michael Spillane (33) of Belton Close, Leicester was banned from
keeping any animal for 10 years after pleading guilty to causing
unnecessary suffering to his eight-month-old Staffordshire bull
terrier. On 2/11/06 Leicester magistrates also gave Spillane a
two-year conditional discharge, told him to pay £100 towards
prosecution costs and ordered the dog to be handed over for rehoming
at the hearing. The ban applies to the rest of his family too, and
means a second dog in the household will also have to be rehomed.
Spillane admitted hitting the Staffordshire bull terrier against the
wall.
A Nottingham couple were found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering
to their cat after it was bitten by a dog. John and Shariefa England
of Beeston were sentenced on 2/11/11 at Nottingham magistratest after
being found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to their cat. In
sentencing, magistrates said that they accepted that the case had not
been one of deliberate cruelty and decided not to impose a
disqualification from keeping animals. John England was fined £300 and
Shariefa England was fined £100. They were each ordered to pay £500 in
costs.
On 9/11/06 dog dealer John Walsh (55) of Denton Hall Kennels, Low
Lane, Brampton who was banned from keeping the animals for life has
now been suspended by the Kennel Club. The decision means that Walsh
is barred from any involvement with licensed dog shows and can’t
register his animals. The decision to impose the life ban was taken at
a Kennel Club disciplinary meeting in November. Walsh was found guilty
earlier this year of animal cruelty and the transportation and
abandonment of nine young puppies.
Eunice Carlisle (51) was banned from keeping animals for life
following convictions for cruelty has been jailed for 12 weeks after
breaching the order. Carlisle appeared at East Suffolk magistrates in
Ipswich on 8/11/06 to answer two charges of breaching an animal
disqualification order. The court heard how Carlisle had been
disqualified from keeping animals for life on 29/11/93, after she was
convicted of three counts of cruelty to animals. She later appealed
against the decision and the sentence was reduced to a 12-year ban.
However in February 2004 Carlisle was found in possession of 109
animals, many of which were being kept in cramped enclosures infested
with faeces and urine. As a result Carlisle was summoned to court on
further charges of animal cruelty. She was later convicted at a court
in Kings Lynn where the lifetime ban of keeping animals was reinstated
and she was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. In January 2005
Carlisle was discovered with 11 cats and two domestic rabbits. When
she was arrested, she admitted to officers she owned the animals but
said someone was always present when she tended to them. Carlisle
admitted one charge of breaching a disqualification order and pleaded
not guilty to a further count of violating the order when she was
found in possession of a cat. She was later convicted of the offence
following a trial. Magistrates' sentenced Carlisle to a total of 12
weeks in prison for the offences and imposed a deprivation order which
will allow the animals, currently being looked after by the RSPCA, to
be permanently re-homed. She was also ordered to pay £887 costs still
outstanding from previous hearings.
A former Workington couple who were trying to set up an animal
sanctuary have been sent to prison for a string of animal cruelty
charges. William and Claire Morris, who now live in Bishop Auckland,
Co Durham, appeared at West Allerdale magistrates on 17/11/06. They
were found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to a pair of Border
Collie type puppies, and admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a
rabbit and three chickens by not giving them food or water. They also
admitted a further charge of causing unnecessary suffering to the
chickens by not giving them reasonable care and supervision. The
couple were sentenced to four months in prison for each charge, which
they will serve concurrently, and were disqualified from keeping
animals for the rest of their lives.
Callum Myers (18) of Ibbotson Flats, Southgate, Huddersfield let his
Staffordshire bull terrier savage a cat to death was sentenced to four
months in a detention centre and banned from keeping animals. Myers
admitted failing to protect a cat from injury. On 21/11/06
Huddersfield magistrates were shown CCTV footage of Myers dangling the
cat above his dog, before allowing it to kill the cat. Myres was also
banned from keeping animals for 20 years.
Ramon Zammit (24) of Balzan, Malta wasjailed for six months, with the
sentence being suspended for three years, and fined Lm500 after
pleading guilty to having pornographic material involving minors,
breaching the copyright law by duplicating programmes, games and
software and to ill-treating a cat. On 22/11/06 Zammit pleaded guilty
to possessing blue films featuring minors. He also pleaded guilty to
ill-treating a cat.
A man who cruelly abandoned his three dogs has been banned from ever
owning a dog again. Gerry Fox (39) of Portlaoise, Co. Laois, left his
rottweilers locked in is home for nearly a week without any human
contact. Fox pleaded guilty at Portlaoise District Court on 1/12/06 to
abandoning his pets. The judge banned Fox from ever keeping dogs and
ordered him to pay €5,000 and expenses of €271 to the ISPCA. Fox will
be back in Portlaoise District Court on 15/12/06 for final sentencing.
A police constable and a force call centre worker admitted causing
suffering to their dog, which the RSPCA found in an "extremely thin"
condition. Pc Adele Laurent (24) and Mark Hoare (29) both of St
Sampson Road, Broadfield, Crawley in West Sussex, were banned from
keeping dogs for 10 years and ordered to pay £1,500 costs each by Mid
Sussex magistrates on 4/12/06.
The builder alleged to have buried 10,000 greyhounds in his allotment
is to be prosecuted. It is claimed David Smith had killed up to 10,000
dogs, mostly greyhounds no longer fast enough to race, over a number
of years. The Environment Agency has begun proceedings for a private
prosecution against him. The allegation of depositing non-specific
controlled waste without a licence relates to burying dogs in a
makeshift graveyard behind his home in Northdene Terrace, Seaham,
County Durham. The first hearing of the case will take place before
North Durham magistrates in January 2007.
Glyndwr Jones (56) and his wife Margaret Jones (50) along with their
son Michael (19) who kept more than 100 animals in their three-bedroom
council home in Gorseinon, Swansea, were found guilty of cruelty to
cats and dogs on 13/12/06. At the Swansea magistrates the three
Joneses denied three counts of causing unnecessary suffering to 14 of
the dogs and 22 of the cats on the grounds of not feeding them
properly, not giving them enough space and failing to provide
veterinary care. They were cleared of failing to provide veterinary
care but convicted of the other two charges. Michael Jones's parents
were also convicted of breaching a disqualification order imposed four
years ago when a similar animal collection was built up at the same
house. They were found guilty in 2002 of causing unnecessary suffering
to animals and banned from keeping more than a small number of pets.
The Joneses will be sentenced in January 2007.
On 15/12/06 Cheltenham vet John McKenna was found guilty of
disgraceful conduct for cutting off the tails of 11 puppies. He could
be struck off by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. Two of the
Weimaraner pups died after the 66-year-old carried out the
controversial 'docking' procedure without anaesthetic. Having found Mr
McKenna guilty of disgraceful conduct, he was suspended for a month.
Kimberley Ireland (21) of Borwick Court, pleaded guilty to causing
unnecessary suffering to an animal by failing to provide veterinary
care when she appeared at Lancaster magistrates on 15/12/06. Her
Staffordshire bull cross-bred terrier was found to be in a poor
physical condition, with hardly any hair on its body. Its skin was
reddened and covered in sores, its paws were swollen and its eyes had
a greenish discharge. It was also anaemic and had mites. Magistrates
ordered Ireland to undertake 40 hours of unpaid community work within
a 12-month period. She was also disqualified from keeping animals for
five years and ordered to pay £200 court costs. A charge of failing to
provide an animal with a balanced diet was dismissed by magistrates.
Ireland's sister Rebecca had been due to appear in court to face a
charge of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.
Derek Moody
<thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
All this since the ban
http://tinyurl.com/ynljuz
The following hunt chaos has all occurred since the ban came into
effect on February 18th 2005. These incidents are the ones that we
know of, how many more go unreported?
Why does this happened if hunts are following a scent, etc etc etc.
Hunting horror
CHILDREN were reduced to tears as bloodthirsty hounds and huntsmen on
horses charged through Broxbourne Wood in a chase being investigated
by Herts police.
A large pack of 30-40 hounds dashed past terrified dog-walkers and
children on Saturday afternoon as they chased a full-grown muntjac
deer while a huntsman blew his horn.
A shaken Broxbourne couple were walking their two cocker spaniels in
the wood off Pembridge Lane, Brickendon, when they saw the hunt.
The man, who does not wish to be named, said: “Children were crying.
It’s a thick wooded area. What they were doing galloping with 40
hounds, I don’t know – it’s ridiculous! There were a lot of people
walking around with children.”
An organised hunt from before the ban
He put his dogs on a leash, especially his golden cocker spaniel which
he was worried the hounds might mistake for a fox.
“If those hounds came across my dog I don’t know what would have
happened. A chap came through the woods – I could see him through the
trees. He was playing this little trumpet and calling the dogs back
and shouting in a gruff voice.
“There was a woman in black on horseback, sitting as proud as punch
with a whip in her hand, who said they would not touch our dogs.
“They were chasing a Muntjac and they were right on its tail. It was
running for its life. I could not believe it. My wife was shaking. I
am totally amazed!”
The Hunting Act 2004, which came into effect from February 2005,
outlaws hunting with dogs, particularly fox hunting but also the
hunting of deer, hares and mink and organised hare coursing. The act
does not stop 'drag hunting' where hounds are trained to follow an
artificial scent.
Former Broxbourne Animal Rights and National Anti-Hunt Campaign
chairman, Niel Hansen, said it sounded like an “illegal hunt”.
“It sounds extremely suspicious,” he said.
Two local hunts have denied any involvement in the incident.
The Enfield Chace Hunt hounds ceased to be kept at Birch Farm in White
Stubbs Lane, Broxbourne, a few years ago after they amalgamated with
the Cambridgeshire hunt. “I don’t know anything about it,” said
surprised joint master, Keith Newland.
Master of the Puckeridge Hunt, Diana Pyper, said when dogs are
exercised they are kept under control and it could have been a drag
hunt.
“The nearest we get is Stevenage,” she said. “Accidents do happen,
like a dog chasing a cat. If they saw a Muntjac they might chase it,
but I can’t think why they would want to go there.”
Herts Constabulary confirmed they would be looking into the incident
after being informed by the Mercury.
Derek Moody
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HUNT ACCUSED OVER CUT HORSE
http://tinyurl.com/yqa4zl
HELEN ORRELL
HELEN....@ESSEXCHRONICLE.CO.UK
10:30 - 14 December 2006
A Woman has slammed a hunt after horses were terrified when a party of
riders and hounds charged through a field.Linzie Winckless, 35, of
Steeple, claims her horse, Bismarck, suffered a gaping wound to his
face when 30 horses and 20 hounds charged across the adjacent field.
She said the Essex Farmers and Union Hunt party then returned and
stopped metres from where the six horses had been grazing.
She claims another horse also cut its chin in the incident, which took
place around 11.45am on Saturday in a field in the village.
"We had no idea the hunt was out on Saturday," she said. "They came
bombing through, shouting and sending our horses absolutely wild.
"Then I heard the sound of thundering hoofs and they came back through
and congregated at the bottom of the gateway."
She said vets believe Bismark cut his face after striking a wall or
the hoof of another horse.
He is now on a course of antibiotics but is unable to be exercised
while his wounds heal.
Ms Winckless said: "It's quite an horrific injury but it can't be
stitched because there is no skin to stitch there.
"He is unrideable and totally depressed as he has to stay in his
stable because he can't get the wound dirty and he can't eat properly.
"They don't seem to care what they do to other people's horses. To
congregate in the field at the bottom where they could see the horses
were distressed, I think is totally irresponsible."
When told about the injuries, hunt master Anne Hull, of Maldon Road,
Burnham-on-Crouch was apologetic.
She said the hunt changed its route at the last minute to avoid
another farmer's field where a horse was in foal.
"We were then limited with where we could go as a result of the
changes," she said.
"We have been on that route many times before and it is usually fine.
The farmers were informed, but they may not have passed that on.
However, we will make sure everyone is informed in future."
Derek Moody
<thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
'Harmless' hunt kills farmer's llamas
http://www.mk-news.co.uk/mknews-archive/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=43913
Hunting hounds savaged a flock of alpacas, resulting in the death of
one of the animals.
Dogs belonging to the Oakley Hunt were drag-hunting when they got in
to a field attached to Horsehill Farm, near Harlington.
Farmers James and Elizabeth Smith keep 26 alpacas, llama-like
herbivorous animals from South America prized for their wool.
The dogs attacked several alpacas, three of which needed the attention
of a vet.
A fourth alpaca subsequently died of its injuries.
Contacted by Bedfordshire on Sunday, Mrs Smith confirmed that an
animal had died but refused to comment further, saying: "We are all
quite traumatised and very upset by this." She referred all inquiries
to a spokesman from the Countryside Alliance, the group that campaigns
to preserve rural ways of life.
A spokesman for the Countryside Alliance said: "This is obviously an
extremely unfortunate incident.
"Mrs Smith and the Oakley Hunt are discussing the matter amicably.
"Hounds are trained to hunt and there will be occasions when things go
wrong." Hunt master Martin Garner said: "Unfortunately the hounds did
slightly get away from us and frightened a couple of animals.
"We have apologised to Mr and Mrs Smith and this is purely a private
matter." A spokesman for the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) said:
"This is horrific, but unfortunately not an isolated incident.
"At the league we often hear distressing reports of this nature - farm
animals, domestic pets savaged by hounds.
"There's no excuse for the huntmaster not to be able to control his
dogs and if he can't, which was the case here, he should not take them
out."
MK News Archive Home Page
Derek Moody
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HUNTING SUPPORTERS HAVE SIGHTS ON ME
BY TRISTAN CORK COUNTRYSIDE CORRESPONDENT
09:50 - 18 November 2006
Police were last night investigating claims that a Somerset woman has
been targeted by pro-hunt supporters because she is keeping tabs on
local hunts.Anne Heritage's car was damaged and allegedly had the
brakes tampered with while it was parked on the Quantocks in what she
and an anti-hunt organisation said was a deliberate attempt to
intimidate her.
When she returned home with the damaged car, Ms Heritage said someone
had got into her porch and "sprayed chemicals" on the walls.
Last night detectives were investigating and forensic officers had
examined the car.
Ms Heritage, of Bridgwater, said she was relatively well known as an
animal rights campaigner in the area, but had never had trouble like
this until she began organising a group to monitor local hunts.
She said enquiries about the possibilities of monitoring hunts with
video cameras, and even from the air aboard microlight aircrafts,
could "easily have got back to the hunts".
She said: "I was out walking my dog on the Quantocks last Friday and
as I was walking back to my car, I heard the sound of smashing glass.
I reached the car as two people in another vehicle were driving off.
"The window was smashed, the car had damage and I discovered later
that the brake cables had been tampered with.
"Nothing was stolen from inside, but I realised that there was
information in there that would lead someone to know who I am and
where I lived.
"When I got back to the house, the hallway outside my front door had
been sprayed with this smelly chemical - I don't know what it was -
but someone had obviously been there and done something.
"It has to be more than a coincidence that this has started happening
just as I've started to set up a hunt-monitoring group.
"Some friends and I were getting together to see if we could monitor
the hunts because I think they are carrying on doing what they were
doing before the ban."
The League Against Cruel Sports said: "To terrorise someone in this
manner is beyond belief. We anticipate that the police will take quick
and effective action to find out who's responsible and stop this type
of thing happening again."
A spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police confirmed a number of alleged
crimes had been reported to them by Ms Heritage.
"It will be investigated and those inquiries are ongoing," he said.
Derek Moody
<thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
HUNT FACING PROBE OVER FOX ATTACK
BY TRISTAN CORK T.C...@BEPP.CO.UK
09:50 - 15 November 2006
Atop Cotswold hunt is being investigated by police after motorists
claimed they were forced to stop on a main road as hounds attacked a
fox in front of them.Leaders of the Heythrop Hunt, a favourite of Tory
leader David Cameron, are to be quizzed by police following the
alleged incident earlier this month on the A429 in Gloucestershire.
One woman driver told police she was flagged down by mounted huntsmen
and then saw a fox being attacked by a group of hounds on the road
just feet from her car.
Yesterday, Gloucestershire police issued an appeal for other witnesses
to come forward - which anti-hunt campaigners hailed as being a sign
detectives were taking the allegations seriously.
The drama happened on the Fosse Way between Stow-on-the-Wold and
Moreton-in-Marsh on November 1.
It was the Heythrop's opening meet at nearby Broadwell that day, and
the woman driver, who did not want to be named, was travelling to her
home near Stratford-upon-Avon. She said the incident lasted just
seconds.
"I was driving along and the road was quite busy. Up ahead, a chap on
a horse flagged me down and I stopped on the road. Cars began to queue
behind me and in the other direction another rider stopped the cars
too," she said.
"There were several hunt people on horses around and suddenly, a fox
came across the road, closely followed by three or four hounds. The
hounds caught it and all hell broke loose.
"Within a couple of seconds, the huntsman nearest was bellowing at the
hounds, calling them off and they did let the fox go. It seemed
injured but it was still alive and it raced off into the hedge. More
hounds arrived and followed it and all hell broke loose in the hedge.
I don't know what happened as I couldn't see.
"We were then allowed to pass, but I stopped and asked someone else on
horseback which hunt it was," she added.
"I was shocked and dismayed by what I saw. I have no opinion on
hunting, neither anti nor pro and haven't even thought about it. But I
couldn't believe that this would happen on a main road in the middle
of the day and the hunt just be allowed to stop the traffic for
themselves. I had thought foxes weren't allowed to be hunted like
this."
Tim Bonner, from the Countryside Alliance, said the fact that the
hounds had been called off by huntsmen showed that the hunt was acting
within the law, and clearly showed there was no intent on the part of
the hunt to kill a fox.
A spokesman for the Alliance added: "We are confident that the
Heythrop have been hunting entirely within the law since the Hunting
Act came in to force.
"During the passage of the Hunting Act the Government was quite clear
that you could not commit a hunting offence 'by accident' and the
intent of the Heythrop and all other hunts is to hunt legally until
the Act is repealed.
"On November 1, the Heythrop had even invited a journalist and
photographer from a national newspaper to come hunting with them,
which they were hardly likely to do if they intended to commit an
offence".
Derek Moody
<thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
>>All this since the ban
>>
>>The following hunt chaos has all occurred since the ban came into
>>effect on February 18th 2005. These incidents are the ones that we
>>know of, how many more go unreported?
>>
>
I was absolutely outraged that the North Shropshire Hunt took it upon
themselves to rampage with hounds through the Brown Moss Nature
Reserve, Whitchurch, on October 14, allowing these dogs to chase water
fowl amongst other things.
When approached they are quoted as saying they were merely
“exercising/collecting” the dogs.
Come on! None of us are that thick. Besides which, who in their right
mind would take 20 unleashed hounds rampaging through a designated
nature reserve renowned for its protected species of Great Crested
Newts, flora and fauna and where dog walkers go for the peace and
tranquillity and where parents feel safe in letting youngsters walk,
run and play?
What a pretentious lot you are. If “exercising the hounds” is what you
are doing, then do not allow them to chase the local duck population.
Keep them under control, on leads, like the rest of us responsible dog
walkers. If you cannot control the direction in which your dogs go,
then you shouldn’t be out with them.
Chris Birch, Newport
Derek Moody
<thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
>>All this since the ban
>http://www.nwhsa.org.uk/
>>
>>The following hunt chaos has all occurred since the ban came into
>>effect on February 18th 2005. These incidents are the ones that we
>>know of, how many more go unreported?
>>
>
My sick horse upset by hunt
By Matt Jackson
Debbie Coffey with her horse Dolly which she says was upset when a
hunt passed through the field Picture Ref: 204444-45
DEBBIE Coffey says the Vale of White Horse Hunt terrorised her sick
horse and ignored her pleas to keep the hounds away.
The mum-of-two, of Green Hill, near Lydiard Millicent, claims her
11-year-old cobb Dolly was traumatised when the hunt's hounds entered
her field.
The 40-year-old said: "We understand living in a village that there
will be hunting but this was not on.
"The VWH hunt has no respect for local animal owners. They were
galloping up and down outside my stables even though we had said Dolly
was ill.
"The horses go mad when the hunts come and she needed to be resting."
Dolly was recovering from a bad chest infection when Mrs Coffey said
she saw the hounds enter the field on Wednesday afternoon.
advertisementShe said: "I had even put on the electric fence to keep
Dolly in, but when the dogs and horses got near she became too
excited.
"She jumped the fence and churned up the field running in circles. The
vet said she needed to be kept dry and calm, but she was sweating
heavily on one of the coldest days of the year."
Her friend Linda Moore, 54, drove to her neighbouring field from Park
South. She thinks animal protection laws may have been broken and that
it was an old-style fox hunt that took place, which is now banned.
She said: "I went into the lane and asked the huntsmen to stop
passing, because it was upsetting Dolly.
"It's a private road but they just carried on with what they were
doing."
Ms Moore claimed the hunt was not drag hunting as allowed by law, but
was chasing an animal.
She said: "With a legal drag hunt they tear along barking because they
are on the scent. But this was different, they went into a copse
nearby and the huntsmen were calling to each other saying things like
There it is'.
"They passed on at least three occasions and didn't seem to care what
happened to Dolly."
Mrs Coffey said she was angry that the hunt had ignored her wishes.
She said: "I have had horses all my life, and I'm certainly not
anti-hunt. But they ignored us for their fun. I saw probably 20 horses
and their pack of hounds. They were blowing their horns and their dogs
were going berserk."
Master of the Hunt Martin Wood strongly rejected claims that an
illegal hunt had taken place.
He said: "There was no way we were fox hunting. We were trail hunting
which is where a quad bike or a horse will lay a scent for the hounds.
"We got permission to ride down that lane. We had to use that lane to
get there and back because that's the only way to go. We only went
once as a group, and we sent someone back later to put some wire up."
Mr Wood disagreed that the hunt should have taken another route.
He said: "We weren't doing anything wrong. We were given permission by
more than one of the farmers and as such we had a right to go along
there.
"They have a right of way and can give anybody a right of way to get
as far as their property. You must be able to ride past people's
fields mustn't you?
"We aren't going to stop going along a track because someone has a
horse in a field."
9:00am Friday 3rd November 2006
Derek Moody
<thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
>>All this since the ban
>http://www.nwhsa.org.uk/
>>
>>The following hunt chaos has all occurred since the ban came into
>>effect on February 18th 2005. These incidents are the ones that we
>>know of, how many more go unreported?
>>
>
Hunt's vow as pack kills pet
Hunt leaders have vowed to stop exercising their hounds in Peak
villages after a family's cat was savaged and killed by their pack of
dogs.
Members of the High Peak Hunt had been riding through Sheldon near
Bakewell when the pack of around 40 hounds attacked the animal after
spotting it by the side of the road.
Bob Graham, joint master of the hunt, said some of the younger hounds
ran to the cat before the other dogs followed – eventually killing the
pet – during the early morning ride through the village.
He said: "We are all deeply shocked and saddened that something like
this has happened – it is not something I have seen before in all my
years with the hunt.
"Normally a cat will run away as soon as it sees or hears us coming,
but this one stayed sat at the side of the road.
"Unfortunately some of the younger hounds, who are more difficult to
control, got to the animal and the rest of the pack followed."
Group leaders have now promised not to ride through Sheldon and other
villages nearby, following calls from concerned residents — including
the family who owned the cat — in the wake of the incident on
September 8.
Mr Graham added: "The day it happened I met with the family and told
them how deeply sorry we are that this has happened.
"This is the only village we tend to ride through, and we have done so
for years, but we have been asked not to exercise our hounds in the
village any longer and we have agreed to this."
Hunting with hounds was banned by new laws which came into force in
February 2005, but packs are still exercised to get fit for 'trials'
which test the animals' ability.
28 September 2006
Derek Moody
<thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
>>All this since the ban
>http://www.nwhsa.org.uk/
>>
>>The following hunt chaos has all occurred since the ban came into
>>effect on February 18th 2005. These incidents are the ones that we
>>know of, how many more go unreported?
>>
>
Horror at brutal killing of goat
http://tinyurl.com/276prd
A SCARBOROUGH woman is devastated after her pet goat was brutally
killed by a dog.
Rachel Phillips, of Newby, owned the elderly white goat which was
killed on Saturday morning.
The animal was found with a large deep slit through its throat and
there was blood and white hair all over the yard in Seamer Road where
it was kept.
The RSPCA and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
are investigating the death and are convinced a dog was responsible
due to the type of wounds left on the goat.
They also believe people were out hunting in the early hours of
Saturday as a fox was also found dead just outside the field.
Mrs Phillips, who owned the goat for more than two years, said: "I am
very upset and I am also very angry. The dog must have killed the fox
and then wanted more.
"I thought hunting with dogs was banned. The killing of my goat and
the fox just goes to show it still goes on."
The incident comes after two pet rabbits and a cat were killed by dogs
in the Eastfield area.
The RSPCA inspector for Scarborough, Geoff Edmond, said: "Obviously
this dog was out of control and it is sad that the goat had to die in
this way.
"The animal was rehomed by the RSPCA which is a great concern. We will
be speaking to the police as it seems that more and more animals are
being attacked by dogs in this brutal way."
The RSPCA are appealing for witnesses to the attack on Saturday night.
Anyone with information should contact the RSPCA national cruelty
helpline on 08705555999.
15 September 2006
Derek Moody
<thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
>>All this since the ban
>http://www.nwhsa.org.uk/
>>
>>The following hunt chaos has all occurred since the ban came into
>>effect on February 18th 2005. These incidents are the ones that we
>>know of, how many more go unreported?
>>
>
Animal cruelty: Torment of a stag
http://tinyurl.com/ky73c
Video shows 'barbaric' hunting of deer with whip, say campaigners
By Sophie Goodchild, Chief Reporter
Published: 27 August 2006
Police are to investigate video footage allegedly showing "barbaric"
and "inhumane" treatment of a stag by huntsmen on National Trust land.
The incident, captured on camera by animal rights campaigners, shows
the creature being chased for more than two hours by dogs and a rider,
who is seen cracking his whip at the animal which is clearly
frightened and exhausted.
The League Against Cruel Sports alleges the Devon and Somerset
Staghounds acted illegally in chasing the stag, which was eventually
shot, over a long distance at Dunkery Beacon in Somerset on 14 August.
It also says these "barbaric" actions show the hunt is not fit to
dispatch stags and was contravening National Trust guidelines. These
allow a hunt on to Trust land only to dispatch stags which are sick or
injured, and state categorically that animals must not be chased.
The hunt denies any wrongdoing and says its members were culling the
stag, which it says was old, in accordance with hunting laws.
However, the allegations made by the league are deeply embarrassing
for the National Trust which caused uproar earlier this year when it
announced it planned to reverse a long-standing ban on hunts on all of
its estates. The decision was taken to allow the culling of stags on
its land. The trust said this could be an effective and humane way of
dealing with deer on its property in the Quantock Hills and Exmoor.
The pro-hunting lobby argues that hunting with hounds is the most
humane way of managing deer and foxes, but welfare activists say it
legitimises hunting as a sport. The league said that it believed that
the Devon and Somerset Staghounds was using dogs to chase the stag.
The law states that the hunt is only allowed to use two dogs to flush
out animals.
"These pictures show the shocking truth about how the people chosen by
the trust to kill ani- mals behave," said a spokesman. "It's like
allowing paedophiles to help out with a mother and toddler group. This
animal was exhausted, terrified and tormented. This was the pursuit of
a deer for fun. It was not a cull, it was slaughter. It was barbaric
and inhumane."
The Devon and Somerset Staghounds refuted the league's claims and said
it was acting within the law, had permission to be on the land and
said the stag was one "suitable for culling" because it was old.
Tom Yandle, chairman of the hunt, said that the horseman had cracked
the whip near the animal to turn it back towards the waiting guns. He
added that the new restrictions on hunting brought in by the
Government were partly to blame for how animals are killed.
"I don't think the Hunting Act produces humanity," said Mr Yandle. "It
would be much better for the animals if the Act had not happened but I
don't see how chasing the deer and riding alongside it and cracking a
whip is any more inhumane than any other form of moving a deer
around."
The trust confirmed it had been called to an incident on 14 August. It
said it had no power to ban the hunt from this part of Dunkery Beacon
and had no control over its activities because the trust did not hold
the hunting rights.
However, anyone who controls or manages land where hunting takes place
has a responsibility under the Act.
Derek Moody
<thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
>>>All this since the ban
>>http://www.nwhsa.org.uk/
>>>
>>>The following hunt chaos has all occurred since the ban came into
>>>effect on February 18th 2005. These incidents are the ones that we
>>>know of, how many more go unreported?
>>>
>>
>
Woods row huntsmen get Asbo warning
By Richard Savill
Last Updated: 12:23am GMT 25/03/2006
Three huntsmen have been issued with a warning notice under
anti-social behaviour legislation following a complaint that hounds
had trespassed on private land.
The notice, believed to be the first of its kind against huntsmen,
prevents the leaders of the Cotswold Hunt from taking hounds through
30 acres of private woodland on the edge of Elcombe, near Stroud,
Glos.
The move follows complaints by Jeanne Berry, who owns part of the
woodland, and other residents. Mrs Berry, an opponent of hunting,
called in police last month after finding bloodstains on her fencing.
advertisementA file was passed to the Crown Prosecution Service, but
it decided there was not enough evidence to justify a prosecution
under the Hunting Act 2004.
The Stroud area anti-social behaviour co-ordinator Colin Peake held a
meeting with both parties to discuss the complaint.
"It was accordingly decided that the most effective way to resolve the
issue was to serve a warning notice," he said.
"The Cotswold Hunt accepted this and the warning notice has thus been
served on three individuals who have control and management of the
hunt. Hopefully a practical and long-standing resolution has been
achieved."
He said the names of the three huntsmen were "confidential".
A warning notice carries no punishment if it is breached but it can be
used as evidence in future legal proceedings under anti-social
behaviour legislation.
Derek Moody
<thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
>>>All this since the ban
>>http://www.nwhsa.org.uk/
>>>
>>>The following hunt chaos has all occurred since the ban came into
>>>effect on February 18th 2005. These incidents are the ones that we
>>>know of, how many more go unreported?
>>>
>>
>
Villagers furious after 'invasion' by huntsmenMar 7 2006
By The Journal
Furious families in a seaside village said last night claimed huntsmen
broke rules to cross National Trust land.
Villagers said up to 10 members of the Percy Hunt gathered in
Newton-by-the-Sea, near Embleton, Northumberland, last week, and
stayed there all day although they were not licensed to be there.
They said the huntsmen had been abusive and when National Trust
wardens asked them to leave, they refused. Trust North-East rural
surveyor Charles Bolam said he had written to the hunt expressing his
disappointment, and said any repeat of the trespassing would have
serious consequences.
Chair of the Percy Hunt Charlie Bucknall said he would be "extremely
disappointed" if one of his members had shouted abuse at villagers,
and said the members had moved to nearby agricultural land when they
were told of the problem.
But people in the village, which is popular with walkers and tourists,
said the hunters had "invaded" it on Monday.
Derek Moody
<thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
All this since the ban
http://www.nwhsa.org.uk/
The following hunt chaos has all occurred since the ban came into
effect on February 18th 2005. These incidents are the ones that we
know of, how many more go unreported?
Pet llama dies after hounds scare
http://tinyurl.com/2ra49s
A pet llama from south Devon has died after being frightened by hounds
from the local hunt.
The animal was in a field in the village of Aveton Gifford when the
incident happened.
A vet was called after hounds from the Modbury Harriers frightened the
llama which died later of a heart attack.
The owner of the llama and the Harriers have agreed to settle the
incident between themselves, but local people are upset.
'Difficult to handle'
Parish council vice chairman Stephen Harding said: "I have received
several calls from villagers.
"It's outrageous that the dogs were allowed to frighten a pet like
this.
"The dogs should have been kept under control."
Patrick Lucas, acting master of the Modbury Harriers, said: "The llama
suffered injuries, but how, we are not sure.
"Llamas are known to be very protective and can be difficult to
handle."
He said that the hunt and the owner of the llama had come to an
agreement on compensation.
Police said they had not received any complaints about the incident
two weeks ago.
Derek Moody
<thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
HUNT MONITORING
http://huntwatch.info/about.htm
Hunt Watch is looking for more local groups and campaigners all over
the UK to become hunt monitors. We can put you in touch with your
nearest group or active monitor. If you are interested, call us on
07952 550 054 or email con...@huntwatch.info to get involved.
If you would like to set up a local group, become a local contact or a
regular fundraiser please contact us.
Becoming a hunt monitor
Regular monitoring of your local hunts will put a high degree of
pressure on them. They will be watching their every move, just like we
are.
Being a monitor you may see animals being chased and killed. You may
also get be intimidated and have threats from the hunt.
Do not go hunt monitoring alone!
What you may need
Knowledge of the animal in the countryside. Click here for help
A camera with a zoom lens and/or a video camera is really essential to
record evidence of animals being chased
A Dictaphone so any threats or important information can be recorded
You must be able to read an Ordnance Survey map.
You need to know your way around the area and where public foot paths
are. This is vital as you can soon become lost
A compass to help with map reading
Hunt News and Abuse.
21st January 2006
Pest control — Sandringham style
This fox never stood a chance when it had a brush with the guns at
Prince Philip’s shooting party yesterday, writes Maurice Chittenden.
First it was blasted by one of eight people taking part in the shoot
on the Sandringham estate. Then, as it lay wounded, it raised itself
to snarl at a gundog, so a gamekeeper beat it over the head with a
flag used to signal to the beaters. Still not sure whether the fox was
dead, the gamekeeper was spotted doing the unspeakable to the
uneatable, appearing to stamp on it before dragging it into the
undergrowth
20th January 2006
Over-limit Otis Ferry escapes being banned from driving
Pro-hunting campaigner Otis Ferry yesterday escaped a driving ban
despite drinking at least seven shots of vodka during a student
"trebles" evening.
The 24-year-old son of rock star Bryan Ferry was pulled over in
Cirencester, Gloucestershire, shortly after leaving The Rock nightclub
in the town on October 11, 2005.
Ferry of Eaton, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, was found to have 55mg of
alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35mg per 100ml
17th January 2006
Police investigate hunt assault claim
A 60-YEAR-OLD hunt monitor said she was violently knocked to the
ground by a supporter as she tried to film a hunt taking place in
Oxfordshire.
Judy Gilbert, a hunt monitor for Protect Our Wild Animals - an
anti-hunt organisation - was filming the Heythrop Hunt in Dean, near
Chipping Norton, when she claims a supporter of the hunt attacked her.
She said the man barged into her, causing her to fall down a slope
into a patch of brambles.
Mrs Gilbert, of Watlington, suffered scratches and bruises and said
she was distressed afterwards
12th January 2006
Dumped rotting gamebird carcases pose risk to human health
Gamebird carcases have been found rotting in a ditch in Beulah, South
Wales, prompting Welsh Assembly member Peter Black to ask Carwyn
Jones, minister for the countryside, what can be done about the risk
to human health.
Black is concerned about the risk because as well as being illegal,
the dumping of vast numbers of carcases is associated with diseases
such as salmonella, sickness and diarrhoea.
10th January 2006
Dead fox 'tied and set on by dog'
A dead fox found with "horrendous injuries" in Kent may have had a dog
set on it, the RSPCA has said.
The animal welfare charity said the animal was found with a snare
around its neck, bald legs, and puncture wounds to its back legs
10th January 2006
OFFICERS SWOOP ON POACHING SUSPECTS
Eight people have been arrested on suspicion of poaching after a
police raid near Dumbleton. Officers swooped on land in Great
Washbourne early on Monday after reports of a group of men coursing -
hunting for rabbits or hares with dogs.
Officers called Cheltenham Animal Shelter to rescue seven lurchers.
Two were taken to the vet for treatment for leg infections. They were
all later returned to their owners.
Tony Bell, general manager at the Animal Shelter, said: "When we got
there, there were about 20 men.
"There were a number of 4x4s, two Land Rovers and a pick-up.
"The men use the lamps to startle the rabbits so the dogs can catch
them.
"One of the dogs was emaciated but we aren't entitled to keep them
from their owners."
9th January 2006
HUNT 'USED NATURE RESERVE'
Anti-hunt protesters in Somerset have called for the prosecutions of
huntsmen who they allege illegally charged across a nature reserve
with a pack of hounds.
Helen Weeks, of West Coker, near Yeovil, said members of the
Cattistock Hunt
broke the law when they burst on to Hardington Moor nature reserve on
December 30
9th January 2006
Killing fields
EIGHT foxes have been found beheaded in fields on the outskirts of
Hartlepool.
The bodies of the animals were found by walkers in hedgerows near to
Hart village.
All had been beheaded. None of the heads have been recovered and
police fear a trophy hunting, animal killer is on the loose
Food and drink, as it can be a long day
Hunt watch monitors will receive a monitors guide book. This includes
information on the Hunting Act guide lines, advice about badger setts,
traps and artificial earths and tips on dealing with the police and
your rights, currently being put together
Derek Moody
<thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
DARKNESS IN THE GREEN
The Countryside Alliance
By Dave Wright, Hunt Watch
"'The Countryside Alliance is nothing more than a front for wealthy
pro-hunters and the landed gentry” Mike Baker, UK director of the
International Fund for Animal Welfare
Formed in the dying months of the last Conservative government, the
Countryside Alliance is a merger of several interest groups who
together make up a large section of what we call the hunting
fraternity: the British Field Sports Society (founded in 1930) and two
newer, more widely focused but by and large less cohesive and
effective groups, the Countryside Movement and the countryside
Business Group.
Lord David Steel, the former Liberal Party leader, was paid £90,000
per annum to head the Countryside Alliance and its board included
American millionaire Eric Bettelheim, Lord Peel, chairman of the Game
Conservancy Trust, Lord Stockton, the Duke of Westminster (one of the
richest men in Britain, who is reported to have made an initial
unsecured loan of £1.3 million to the CA), and Alain Drach, chairman
of the gun makers Holland and Holland
Sunley Holdings, Pillar Property Investment, and construction magnate
Sir Robert McAlpine also represented significant real estate
interests. A former treasurer of the Tory Party, McAlpine became the
main supporter of the anti-European Referendum Party of the late Sir
James Goldsmith.
The CA, it is clear, has immensely wealthy backers and influence in
all parts and at all levels of the stablishment.
The new chair of the Countryside Alliance is right wing Labour MP and
former sports Minister, Kate Hoey.
Amongst Hoey's pet causes, as well as being an ardent hunter, she also
against the ban on handguns.
Financial backing from the United States has included the American
Master of Foxhounds Association, Sotheby’s auction house in New York,
leading venture capitalist Willem F.P. de Vogel and C. Martin Wood
III, senior vice president of Flowers bakeries.
The CA claims 100,000+ members and claims that 400,000 supporters
participated in its September 22, 2002 "Liberty & Livelihood March" in
London, although the Metropolitan Police Service estimated the crowd
at closer to 200,000.
According to disclosures in the UK Data Protection Register, the CA
carries out research on the backgrounds of those it considers its
opponents.
The bill to ban hunting with dogs in England and Wales was repeatedly
blocked by the unelected, unrepresentative House of "Lords" and so the
government invoked the Parliament Act. The Parliament Act basically
sticks two fingers up at the upper chamber and says "it doesn't matter
what you think, we're doing it anyway".
The bloodthirsty hunters, however, didn't like that. They thought it
was a downright liberty and launched a legal challenge. Predictably,
they lost.
Whining about the judgment, Simon Hart, chief executive of the
Countryside Alliance said: "This judgment effectively gives the House
of Commons the freedom - with no checks and balances - to do what it
wants, to whom it wants, when it wants… it sets a dangerous,
anti-democratic precedent."
No. What it does is to bolster democracy by ensuring that the will of
the elected chamber prevails. Democracy is a fairly woolly concept
these days, but most take it to mean something along the lines of
government by the will of the people (that's why the "elected" bit
matters). Not government by the will of troublesome toffs and
political appointees.
Derek Moody
<thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
Frazer Sibley, Christopher Marles, Wayne Spencer and John Wesley are
just four of the 'law abiding' hunting folk convicted of unprovoked
attacks in recent weeks. No doubt their will be many more given Simon
Hart's recent comments. Visit the Hunt Scum Gallery - the site which
names and shames the countryside terrorists!
http://www.huntscumgallery.co.uk/
GUILTY: Hunt Supporter Convicted of Assaulting Hunt Saboteur
Frazer Sibley a hunt supporter has been found guilty at Chichester
Magistrates Court (17 October 2006) of assaulting Christopher Black
during a meet of the Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray Hunt on 17th
February 2005. This was the last legal day of fox hunting in England
and Wales.
Sibley of Bignor Park Road Nursery, Bignor Park Road, Bignor, West
Sussex, RH20 1HG was given a two year Conditional Discharge and
ordered to pay £250 costs. On 25th August 2006, Lewes Crown Court
fined hunt supporter Wayne Spencer £400 with £700 costs for an assault
during the same incident. More...
Video: Frazer Sibley and Wayne Spencer unprovoked attacks
GUILTY: Huntsman thug guilty of monitor attack
A COUNTRYSIDE Alliance supporter and a whipper-in for the East Devon
Hunt has been found guilty of attacking a campaigner who was filming a
hunting event. Christopher Marles, 44, of Farringdon, near Exeter,
repeatedly punched Kevin Hill, a hunt monitor with the International
Fund for Animal Welfare.
Exeter Crown Court heard that Mr Hill, 56, from Beaminster, Dorset,
suffered a bleeding face as well as a black eye during the attack.
Sixteen-stone Marles was bailed for sentencing to 23 October and the
judge ordered that in the meantime he should not attend any hunting
event. More...
GUILTY: Countryside Alliance supporter assaulted a hunt saboteur
A Countryside Alliance supporter has been convicted of attacking a
hunt saboteur on the last day before hunting with dogs was banned on
February last year. Video footage shown in court shows Spencer
threatening hunt saboteur prior to the attack.
Farm worker, Wayne Spencer, 39, of Oakhurst Lane, Billingshurst, West
Sussex, was found guilty of assaulting Simon Clear but amazingly
cleared of actual bodily harm.
The incident happened after the final meet of Chiddingfold, Leconfield
and Cowdray Hunt at Petworth Park, West Sussex. A judge fined Spencer
£400 with £700 costs at Lewes Crown Court on Friday 25th Aug. 06. He
was cleared of unlawfully wounding another protester, Carol Tibbets.
More...
Video: Frazer Sibley and Wayne Spencer unprovoked attacks
GUILTY: Felix the Fox Supporter Admits Three Offences
John Wesley, a Crawley and Horsham hunt "supporter", pleaded guilty to
driving without due care and attention, having no insurance and
failing to report an accident.
On what should have been the first day of the trial, John Wesley
pleaded guilty. Horsham magistrates, Sussex gave Wesley 9 points on
his licence but he received less than £500 in fines, costs and
compensation, and was only ordered to pay £80 of more than £2,000
damage he caused, after he rammed a hunt monitor's minibus off the
road. The incident had occurred during the first meet of the Crawley
and Horsham hunt after the introduction of the Hunting Act in February
2005. Wesley is already banned from driving having been convicted for
having no insurance on a more recent occasion. More...
Head of hunt issues chilling threat to anti hunt campaigners
"You are all fair game, I've told everyone" says Kim Richardson, the
"money-man" and head of the West Sussex based Crawley and Horsham
Hunt. Seconds after this video was shot, a hunt supporter head-butted
a 17 year old anti hunt campaigner in front of Richardson, breaking
his nose, which required surgery. Police have now said there is
insufficient evidence to prosecute. Kim Richardson is the son of the
late Sir Michael Richardson who was know as "Mr Privatisation" and was
a darling of Lady Thatcher during the 1980s. However, before Sir
Michael's recent death, he was thrown out of the City by the Regulator
for "practices that could have faciliated money laundering", and
forced to pay the Regulator £70,000 in costs. Kim has now inherited
his father's fortune and is known as a bullying playboy. Video
Derek Moody
<thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
Name: Simon Upton
http://www.huntscumgallery.co.uk/
Hunts with: Essex Farmer and Union Fox Hunt
They are a: Master
MORE INFO
The 40 year old farmer from Coptford Hall, Margaretting accepted he
used unreasonable force trying to remove some protesters from the land
CONVICTIONS
He was found guilty of three counts of assault (Whipping hunt
protesters round the head). Upton was ordered to pay fines,
compensation to his victims and £455 court costs. He had to pay more
than £1,500 in total!
The Natural Philosopher
Plonked.
Old Codger
> Derek Moody wrote:
Actually he didn't, it was all Pete forging headers and pasting that
which he has not read.
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e-mail use reply to field
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people believe has happened. [Janet Daley 27/8/2003]
Dave Fawthrop
<thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
|!On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:09:29 +0000, Dave Fawthrop
|!<daveful...@hyphenologist.co.uk> wrote:
|!
|!>On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:48:29 GMT, Pun Krocker <Pap...@TheMoon.blah> wrote:
|!>
|!>|!On 07/02/2007 at 16:41:58 Moebius wrote :
|!>|!> Well they did more damage than good for whatever cause they might have been
|!>|!> trying to push.
|!>|!
|!>|!That's what I think.
|!>|!Their cause is probably a good one, the way they go about it is stupid.
|!>|!Flooding groups with _old_ news_ and _lies_ will not add numbers to
|!>|!their ranks :(
|!>
|!>Yes almost as good as blackmail, arson and digging up bodies.
|!>Typical animal rights tricks
|!That's not nice Dave aka Andy Mabbett, is it? Nor is dragging your fav
|!groups into disrepute!
Sorry I hate terrorists.
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Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk>
Pete ‹(•¿•)›
<inv...@hyphenologist.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
>On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:29:13 +0000, Derek Moody
><thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
>
>|!On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:09:29 +0000, Dave Fawthrop
>|!<daveful...@hyphenologist.co.uk> wrote:
>|!
>|!>On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:48:29 GMT, Pun Krocker <Pap...@TheMoon.blah> wrote:
>|!>
>|!>|!On 07/02/2007 at 16:41:58 Moebius wrote :
>|!>|!> Well they did more damage than good for whatever cause they might have been
>|!>|!> trying to push.
>|!>|!
>|!>|!That's what I think.
>|!>|!Their cause is probably a good one, the way they go about it is stupid.
>|!>|!Flooding groups with _old_ news_ and _lies_ will not add numbers to
>|!>|!their ranks :(
>|!>
>|!>Yes almost as good as blackmail, arson and digging up bodies.
>|!>Typical animal rights tricks
>
>|!That's not nice Dave aka Andy Mabbett, is it? Nor is dragging your fav
>|!groups into disrepute!
>
>Sorry I hate terrorists.
Yet happily support them! Strange.
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"Dave Fawthrop" <inv...@hyphenologist.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
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What the hell has this to do with camping?
Why don't you idiots just post to the newsgroup you read it in?
Alan Holmes
"The Natural Philosopher" <a@b.c> wrote in message
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> Derek Moody wrote:
> Plonked.
!plonk!
Derek Moody
<URL:mailto:thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
Nothing. Pete the troll is forging headers.
> That's not nice Dave aka Andy Mabbett, is it? Nor is dragging your fav
Cheerio,
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Derek Moody
<URL:mailto:thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
Nothing. That was a Pete the troll cut and paste forgery.
> HUNT ACCUSED OVER CUT HORSE
Pete the troll has forged at least 20 posts with this crosspost pattern and
a great many more elsewhere on usenet.
He is currently posting under at least six different ID's including these
forgeries. His only intention is to provoke a flame and to this end he
will take any stance, including ones directly opposed to his previous posts.
He rarely reads any of the stuff he steals from websites for his posts, (or
if he does he doesn't care what they contain.)
It is unwise to accept anything posted by Pete the troll without a thorough
check of its provenance.
A usenet search for 'Pete the troll' will supplement this information.
Derek Moody
<URL:mailto:thisis...@derekmoody.con> wrote:
Nothing. Pete the troll forged the post.
> All this since the ban
Cheerio,
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