Another week, another sab group captures extraordinary drone footage of the illegal fox hunting that is rampant across the country.
This time, it was the Gloucestershire-based Beaufort Hunt – who used to count King Charles and Camilla amongst their riders – who were caught out by Wiltshire Hunt Saboteurs.
The footage, shot near Chippenham last Thursday, shows a fox being hunted hard over a sustained period. In heart-in-the-mouth scenes, the brave animal repeatedly seeks refuge in strips of woodland, only to be surrounded by the baying pack. On three separate occasions – and with the hounds just inches away – she breaks for freedom and the gruelling chase resumes.
Throughout, Beaufort Hunt staff and riders can be seen jostling for a better view of the terrified animal.
The footage is all the more remarkable because, throughout the whole episode, the drone pilot was under attack from Beaufort Hunt thugs who tried to enter their vehicle. The cool-headed sab commented:
“Last Thursday was the seventh time in this season alone that I filmed the Beaufort hunting a fox. Sadly, the circumstances were particularly dire, as only a single saboteur was out on foot and still far away, meaning that all I could do was watch as the hunters made every attempt to encourage their hounds to tear this beautiful animal apart alive for their putrid, psychotic pleasure. While this was happening, I was intimidated and threatened by both hunt staff and support who tried to gain access to the car in order to get me to stop recording, knowing full well that the chase was now being filmed.”
This latest footage comes less than two weeks after Wiltshire Hunt Sabs filmed the Beaufort killing a fox and then stuffing her broken body – the evidence of their criminality – into a black bin-bag carried by the whipper-in for that very purpose.
The Beaufort Hunt is a large, wealthy organisation that will stop at nothing to prevent scrutiny of its activities. Last year, they made national headlines by downing and stealing another Wiltshire Hunt Sabs drone and, in recent weeks, they have employed a gang of creepy stalkers to harass hunt sabs and conceal evidence of illegal fox hunting.
Beaufort whipper-in stuffs his victim into a bin-bag.Weeks before the government consultation on so-called trail hunting, dedicated hunt sabs have landed yet another hammer-blow against the fox hunters.
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