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.

October 2007

A gang of seven men: Daniel Dooley, Darren Fairclough, Michael Smith, John Weeder and Paul Hoffman from Liverpool, Adam McIlvenna from Halewood and Kevin Walton from Knowsley were found guilty of hunting rats with dogs. Each was fined £400 and ordered to pay £65 court costs.