“A gamekeeper on a Hampshire estate, owned by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, has been fined for trapping a tawny owl.
Self-employed Mark Stevens, 42, who worked on the composer’s Sydmonton Court estate near Basingstoke, admitted setting a trap incorrectly.
The owl was discovered at nearby Ecchinswell in August 2013, with a leg caught in a spring trap. It had to be put down.
Stevens was fined £1,365 by Basingstoke magistrates” [on 31st July 2014].
Source: BBC
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Additional media coverage:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-2711980/GAMEKEEPER-FINED-AFTER-OWLS-DEATH.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AnoGrboatk&feature=youtu.be
http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/375435-gamekeeper-fined-after-tawny-owl-caught-in-illegal-trap-
