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Huntsman of the Grafton Hunt Mick Wills is to face trial on 3rd September 2018 at Wellingborough Magistrates Court on a charge of illegal hunting.

The former huntsman of the Cambridgeshire based Fitzwilliam Hunt has been found guilty of illegal hunting.

Three members of the Nottinghamshire based Grove and Rufford Hunt who were convicted last year of hunting a wild mammal with dogs were acquitted on the 15th March 2018 on appeal at Nottingham Crown Court.

The trial of three members of the Derwent Hunt was dismissed recently by a magistrate who ruled there was “no case to answer” due to ‘insufficient evidence’ –despite video footage showing the pack of hounds in full pursuit of a fox.

Three members of the Derwent Hunt, a hunt based in North Yorkshire appeared at Scarborough Magistrates Court on the 22nd May 2017 after being charged with illegal hunting under Section 1 of the Hunting Act.

Three members of the Nottinghamshire based Grove and Rufford Hunt have been fined after being found guilty of illegal fox hunting.

Former huntsman George Adams and bird of prey handler John Mease were due to stand trial on the 5th December at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court for illegal hunting with dogs.

Three members of the Nottinghamshire based Grove and Rufford Hunt appeared at Mansfield Magistrates’Court on the 4th October after each were charged with hunting a wild mammal with dogs contrary to S1 of the Hunting Act 2004.

George Adams (retired) huntsman of the Fitzwilliam Hunt along with Bird of Prey Handler John Mease appeared before Peterborough Magistrates court on the 31st August after their case had been adjourned in July.

The huntsman of the Fitzwilliam Hunt George Adams and bird of prey handler John Mease have been charged with offences under the Hunting Act after Cambridgeshire police investigated an alleged incident where a fox was chased and killed by hounds on New Years Day.

The circumstances surrounding the killing of a fox that took place on New Year’s Day following a meet of the Fitzwilliam Hunt is being investigated by Cambridgeshire police.

The case against six members of the Lamerton Hunt that was being heard at Newton Abbot Magistrates Court was withdrawn by the League Against Cruel Sports on the 3rd December 2015.

The trial relating to six members of the Devon based Lamerton Hunt is due to take place at Newton Abbot Magistrates’ Court on the 30th November 2015 and is estimated to last two weeks.

Tom Holt, the huntsman and joint master of the Yorkshire based Middleton Hunt was today found not guilty at Scarborough Magistrates’ Court of hunting a wild mammal with dogs at West Knapton, Malton in North Yorkshire last year.

The case against huntsman Paul Whitehead and company director Terence Potter of the Lunesdale Hunt for Hunting Act offences was dismissed on the first day of their trial at York Magistrates’ Court on the 21st January 2015.