This is another episode in the story of a foxhunter who supervised the throwing of a live fox to a pack of hounds on Christmas Eve. Thomas Ledbury, 38, was working for the Avon Vale hunt at the time. He was employed as a terrier …
NEWS AND VIEWS: The Times reports, as do numerous other media outlets and on social media, that a hunt in Dorset has been suspended and the police are investigating after drone footage showed that hounds ripped apart a live fox trying to escape while the …
This page has been updated as the jury’s verdict has come in: she has been acquitted. Her post-trial statement is on video at the base of the article. She said that the damage caused by a “trial by social media” is “irreversible” and that she …
NEWS AND OPINION: The Times reports that a 34-year-old man has been arrested following an incident in which, on my understanding, the foxhunter’s horse struck a hunt saboteur. I believe that the photograph below shows the incident as it happened. The arrested man is from …
Mark Pearson, 64, of Child Okeford, near Blandford, has been found guilty in the Weymouth Magistrates’ Court of the illegal hunting of a fox with dogs. He is the director of a concrete business and joint master of the South Dorset Hunt. He wasn’t aware …
This is a shocking video made by a foxhunt saboteur, a woman actually. She films a middle-aged man struggling with his horse. He is on the ground trying to control his horse who is uncooperative. He is exasperated and there is a meanness in his …
