Adam Pengilley
was charged with offences against the Hunting Act 2004
and pleaded guilty at South Sefton Magistrates Court
on the 6 October 2005. He admitted that he had been hunting
rabbits on the estate without permission from the landowners
and therefore his hunting with dogs was not exempt. He
was fined £155
with £35 costs
There were
a further two prosecutions in 2005, although the result
of them is not known
| August
2006 |
 |
August 2006: Tony Wright, huntsman of
the Exmoor Foxhounds, from
Somerset was convicted of fox hunting and fined £500
plus £250 costs
| October
2006 |
|
Mark Walsh
and Terence Williams from Liverpool pleaded guilty in
Chester Magistrates Court of hunting for foxes. Williams
was fined £500
and Walsh was fined £500 with £2,896.07
costs payable to the RSPCA who prosecuted him.
The court also ordered the forfeiture of one dog plus
spades and collars.
| November
2006 |
|
Paul Kelly
of Liverpool pleaded guilty for the same offence
and was fined £500
with £2,846.09 costs and also had his terrier
confiscated.
| March
2007 |
|
Paul McMullen
of Bootle was convicted for the same offence and was
fined £750, ordered
to pay £5,000 in costs and ordered to hand two
dogs into RSPCA care.
| January
2007 |
|
William
Winter from Cambridge pleaded guilty at Bury St Edmunds
Magistrates Court after being accused of chasing and
killing a hare at Wickfield, near Stowmarket, Suffolk.
He was fined £500 with £60
costs.
| February
2007 |
|
John Greenwood
and Daniel Graves, both of Nelson in Lancashire were
found guilty of hunting rabbits with luchers. Greenwood
was fined £100
with £95 costs and Graves was fined £50
with £95 costs.
| March
2007 |
|
Paul McMullen,
of Bootle, Merseyside, was arrested after a woman reported
a group of men with dogs digging into a badger set in
the Cheshire countryside. He had denied hunting a wild
mammal with a dog but was found guilty by magistrates
in Chester. McMullen, 36, was fined £750 and ordered
to pay £5,000
in costs
| June
2007 |
|
Richard Down and Adrian Pillivant,
respetively huntsman and whipper-in of the Quantock
Staghounds, both from Somerset were convicted
of hunting deer with hounds and each fined £500
with £1000 costs. They appealed against their
conviction and were unsuccessful. No new fine or costs
were added to the previous verdict which therefore
stands.
| July
2007 |
|
James Rooney
from High Wycombe was convicted
of coursing for hares in Northamptonshire and was
fined £200 with £250 costs.
| July
2007 |
|
William
Armstrong, Terrierman for the Flint and Denbigh Hunt
in Wales, was found guilty of hunting a wild animal with
dogs. He
was fined £200 with £60 legal costs.
