RSPCA-Case against Cheshire Hunt Supporters Collapses

[happyhunter123]

Here is a piece of good news.
http://www.countryside-alliance.org...lapse-reinforces-need-for-scrutiny-of-charity
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/law/article3692190.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_02_18

Note that this was hunt supporters not the hunt in the dock, although the sett was allegedly interfered with during a days hunting. The case was today dismissed.
Apparently it has cost the taxpayer £10,000.

One a slightly different note, I wish that we could be kept abreast of upcoming prosecutions involving hunts-they seem to come up so suddenly! Does anyone know how many other cases against hunts ( bar the Avon Vale), if any are coming up?

 

[Alec Swan]

Well done, and thank you for that. The rspca are finding that the costs are starting to add up. The £10k was awarded AGAINST our august body, but payed for from public funds. Someone needs to point out the facts of life to the idiots, and to the idiots who offer them support, too!

Alec.

 

[happyhunter123]

The RSPCA is said to have spent £30,000 on the case, by the way.

 

[Countryman]

Just the Avon Vale now to win! And i think the Sinnington Terrierman has been charged, rather like this case? Don't think there are any other prosecutions but I could be wrong. The LACS are promising an extra 3 prosecutions this year though, supposedly they have the evidence...

 

[MerrySherryRider]

Did you miss this one ? The accused had to pay the RSPCA £50,000. This blood sports enthusiast is a nasty piece of work.
Thankfully, the Farrier's Registration Council agree with the RSPCA and struck him off.http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/315903.html

 

[happyhunter123]

Actually, now I remember...
Tim Bonner tweeted a couple of weeks ago about a Hunting Act case involving the Holderness that was delayed. This case was not being brought by the LACS (or using their evidence) or by the RSPCA. I had not heard about this case before. The Weston & Banwell master face trail April over alleged breaches of the Hunting Act and the Protection of Badgers Act. The case is scheduled for the 8th April. The may be being brought using LACS evidence, but I'm not sure.
The fact that pretty much no one, anti or pro, seems to know anything about these cases makes me wonder if there are others too that we know little or nothing of.

 

[happyhunter123]

Did you miss this one ? The accused had to pay the RSPCA £50,000. This blood sports enthusiast is a nasty piece of work.
Thankfully, the Farrier's Registration Council agree with the RSPCA and struck him off.http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/315903.html

Nothing to do with this. I'm sure that he is a nasty piece of work, but its irrelevant to the case in hand! So let's not discuss it.

 

[MerrySherryRider]

Nothing to do with this. I'm sure that he is a nasty piece of work, but its irrelevant to the case in hand!

Oh dear, I thought we were talking about RSPCA prosecutions for animal cruelty ?

 

[Moomin1]

Nothing to do with this. I'm sure that he is a nasty piece of work, but its irrelevant to the case in hand! So let's not discuss it.

Would you think that case is politically motivated though?

 

[happyhunter123]

Would you think that case is politically motivated though?

I never said ANTHING about this case being 'politically motivated'.
While, I suppose, the bringing about of the Heythrop case could be partly due to 'political reasons', this one is not! Just pleased that it collapsed

 

[happyhunter123]

Oh dear, I thought we were talking about RSPCA prosecutions for animal cruelty ?

So what are you going to do, bring up every case that the RSPCA has ever brought? Besides, it was a case of interfering with a badger set, which is illegal but not necessarily cruel! Anyone could disturb a badger set without actually harming any badgers (e.g if there were no badgers in it that day!)

 

[Countryman]

HappyHunter was it the Holderness Bonner tweeted about? That was what I was thinking of when I said that the Sinnington terrierman had been charged, got the two mixed up.
So still to go to trial:

Avon Vale
Weston & Banwell
Holderness

 

[Countryman]

According to this ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ea...r-laws-as-a-backdoor-way-to-get-to-hunts.html ) two men of the Cheshire Forest Hunt are still being prosecuted under the Badger Act.

 

[happyhunter123]

All of those cases are for alleged terrierwork offences as well!

 

[happyhunter123]

According to this ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ea...r-laws-as-a-backdoor-way-to-get-to-hunts.html ) two men of the Cheshire Forest Hunt are still being prosecuted under the Badger Act.

Of course, this case involves the Cheshire, not the Cheshire Forest so is separate.