Hampshire pair Luke Ockendon, 24, and Edward Goddard, 52, were caught poaching on farmland in Collingbourne Ducis, on Salisbury Plain, in December 2019. Appearing before Swindon Magistrates’ Court in January 2021, Goddard, of Winchester Street, Botley, and Ockendon, of Manor Park Drive, Yateley, pleaded guilty to hunting a wild animal with a dog on December […]

Two men will appear in court charged with poaching and COVID-19 offences. On the afternoon of Saturday 23 January 2021, police were called to a report that suspected poachers were chasing hares with a dog in a field near Chapel Haddlesey, Selby. North Yorkshire Police officers attended immediately, and arrested two men in their 30s. […]

Three men were sent home with COVID-19 FPNs after being stopped by police poaching patrols in North Yorkshire. At about 10am on Sunday 24 January 2021 , police were called with a report that a blue Subaru Impreza was involved in poaching activity in the rural Bedale area. North Yorkshire Police officers attended immediately, and […]

Thames Valley Police has made six arrests in connection with incidents of hare coursing in Hungerford. The arrests are in connection with incidents in Churchwood Wickham, Hungerford Hill, and nearby at Shefford Woodlands, Lambourn, shortly before 3.30pm on Saturday 16 January in which groups of males with lurcher dogs were reported to be acting suspiciously […]

A trio of hare coursers who caused hundreds of pounds of damage to a farmer’s crops have been hit with more than £1000 in total fines. Jimmy Cole, 43, Chase Loveridge, 36, and Levi Cole, 20, were spotted driving a silver Land Rover across a field near Cambridge Road, in Fowlmere, at about noon on […]