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The former whipper-in of the Middleton Hunt has been cleared of an offence under the 2004 Hunting Act. Mark Baldwin was found not guilty following a trial at Scarborough Magistrates Court today. Baldwin had been charged with hunting a wild mammal with a dog, contrary to S1 Hunting Act 2004. The charge was in relation…

The huntsman of the Cheshire Hounds has been found guilty of illegal hunting under the Hunting Act 2004. John Finnegan, 38, of Kennel Lane in Cuddington, Northwich, failed to show up in court as he was found guilty of two charges of hunting a wild mammal with a dog. Finnegan was handed a fine and…

A member of the Middleton Hunt has now been charged with Section 1 of the Hunting Act 2004 and is due to appear at Scarborough Magistrates Court on 13th November. Whipper-in Mark Baldwin was charged after a fox was killed by foxhounds at a Middleton Hunt meet on the 25th January 2023.

Three Avon Vale Hunt members have been charged with wildlife offences after videos were published on social media allegedly showing harm to foxes. Those charged are: Aaron Fookes, 29 of Spye Park, Lacock – charged with Hunting a Wild Mammal with dogs contrary to S1 Hunting Act 2004, and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected…

The huntsman of the Puckeridge Hunt have been cleared of an offence under the 2004 Hunting Act. Arun Squire, 31, was found not guilty following a trial at Stevenage Magistrates Court today. Squire had been charged with hunting a wild mammal with a dog, contrary to S1 Hunting Act 2004. The charge was in relation…

Shaun Parrish fined £421 by court after pleading guilty. A Fitzwilliam Huntsman has been fined after admitting illegally hunting with dogs near Peterborough. Shaun Parrish appeared at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court this morning (May 11) where he pleaded guilty to hunting a wild animal with dogs. The court was told Parrish, described as the hunt’s huntsman,…

Quorn huntsman Ollie Finnegan pleaded guilty to illegally hunting with dogs. Key evidence was found on his phone after it was seized by officers from Leicestershire Police. Magistrates said Finnegan had a “pattern of offending over a period of time”. What sets this case apart from other hunting crimes is the unique insight it gives…

A hunt master of the Vale of White Horse Hunt and two landowners have been charged with Hunting Act offences. The hunt master has been charged under S1 Hunting Act 2004 and the two landowners have each been charged under S1 and S3 Hunting Act 2004. The alleged offences took place earlier in the year…

Charges of illegal hunting against Huntsman of the Royal Artillery Hunt Charles Carter have been dropped. He had appeared  at Swindon Magistrates’ Court on 01/06/2022 where he pleaded not guilty to the charge of hunting a wild mammal with a dog, contrary to S1 Hunting Act 2004. The alleged offence took place last year on…

Huntsman of the Puckeridge Hunt Arun Squire has been charged with hunting a wild mammal with a dog, contrary to S1 Hunting Act 2004. The charge is in relation to the hunt’s delayed Boxing Day meet that took place 27/12/2021. The 30 year-old man from Brent Pelham, Hertfordshire  is to appear at Stevenage Magistrates’ Court…

Huntsman of the Fernie Hunt William Hanson has been charged with hunting a wild mammal with a dog and that the hunting was not of a class exempted by Schedule 1 to the Hunting Act 2004. The charge is in relation to an alleged incident in the Peatling Magna area on 08/01/2022. Hanson is due…

Huntsman of the Royal Artillery Hunt Charles Carter has been charged with hunting a wild mammal with a dog, contrary to S1 Hunting Act 2004 and appeared at Swindon Magistrates’ Court on 01/06/2022 where he pleaded not guilty. The alleged offence took place last year on 30/10/2021 on land owned by the Ministry of Defence.

Huntsman of the South Shropshire Hunt Daniel Cherriman and whipper-in Oliver Beazley have been charged with hunting a wild mammal with a dog following an alleged incident that took place on 29/11/2021 on National Trust land at Long Mynd, Inwood near Church Stretton. At a hearing that took place at Telford Magistrates’ Court on 21/06/2021…

East Essex Hunt terrier man Paul O’Shea, 49, of Mount Bures, Essex, admitted charges of hunting a wild mammal with a dog and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal when he appeared at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, 22/06/2022. The prosecution withdrew a charge of hunting a wild mammal with a dog against a…

North Wales police have charged the huntsman of the Wynnstay Hunt with two offences of illegal hunting relating to two separate days. One incident allegedly took place in November 2022 near Malpas, Cheshire and the other  in January 2022 near Wrexham. On 17/06/2022 Christopher Woodward was formally charged at Wrexham Magistrates’ Court where he pleaded…