An experienced huntsman has been jailed after being caught badger-baiting on remote farmland in North Wales. RSPCA inspectors and police also found two foxes in a cage next to a pack of dogs on the farm, a meeting place for the Dwyryd Hunt, and believe they were going to be released for dogs to […]

The first Badger Persecution Report for Northern Ireland, covering 2015, has been released. Click here [Badger Persecution Report Northern Ireland 2015] for the 2015 report into Badger Persecution Northern Ireland.

A 23-year-old man who admitted three charges of causing unnecessary cruelty to three of his five dogs, has been jailed for three months and ordered to pay kenneling costs of £14,000. Michael Stephen Conwell, from Slievebuoy Park in Claudy, also received a lifetime ban against keeping pet dogs, the Magistrates court in Derry heard yesterday. […]

Three men have been jailed after admitting a charge of badger baiting – despite no badger carcass being found. Brothers Kyle and Daniel Green, along with their accomplice Martin Skinner, were stopped by police in a 4×4 while driving through Darley Dale. In the rear of the vehicle were two badly injured dogs, which needed […]

A man who killed two badgers in a “barbaric” attack using two dogs has been sent to prison. Paul Tomlinson, 29, from Nottingham, filmed the attacks and discussed it on social media, in June 2014. Tomlinson, of Melford Road, was jailed for 20 weeks and banned from keeping dogs for three years, at Nottingham Magistrates’ […]

A 24-YEAR-OLD unemployed father has been convicted of badger baiting after RSPCA officers found pictures on his mobile phone. Other photographs of dead deer and a badly injured dog were found on the phone of David Nightingale, of Oakley Walk, Eston, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool Magistrates Court heard. The photographs were discovered when RSPCA inspectors were tipped […]

A gamekeeper has been convicted of snaring offences which left a badger caught on an electric fence by its head. George Allan, from Skene in Aberdeenshire, was fined £600 when he appeared for sentencing at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on Tuesday 2nd November 2015. The 61-year-old previously pled guilty to setting a snare, failing to inspect […]

A farm worker has been convicted of causing unnecessary suffering to his dog and interfering with a badger sett after police found images on his mobile phone. Carwyn Jenkins’ dog had half its nose missing and injuries to its jaw, Aberystwyth Justice Centre was told. Jenkins, 23, from Llanfarian, Ceredigion, admitted interfering with a sett […]