The day after the Channel 4 News report that exposed illegal fox hunting from Cumbria to Devon, the notorious Blackmore & Sparkford Vale (BSV) Hunt killed yet another fox and – in scenes similar to those seen on Dartmoor recently – a hunter wrapped the body in his jacket and spirited it away.
In the video, BSV whipper-in Ben Summersgill is seen scooping the mangled remains of the fox into his jacket and – desperate to hide the hunt’s criminality from the drone – conceals himself in a hedge. The entire mounted field trot past, all complicit in the death of the poor fox.
A terrierman eventually comes to Summersgill’s rescue by taking the body, wrapping it in a bin-bag and then stowing it in a box on his quadbike. As Summersgill finally emerges from the bushes, his groin area is visibly stained with fox blood.
On being informed of the kill by the drone pilot from Locals Against the BSV, brave sabs rushed in to try to recover the body as evidence. Even though the hunt had packed up, the area was crawling with hunt staff trying to eject sabs, with even huntsman George Pierce embarrassing himself by acting as ‘security’.
Like that other criminal gang the Beaufort Hunt, the BSV have hired a lackey whose sole job is to follow the drone pilot around and alert the hunt when it’s being flown. This idiot even claimed to have phoned Sturminster High School earlier in the day telling them sabs were flying a drone over the school!
An HSA spokesperson commented,
“As hunt sabs deploy ever more effective drone technology against the hunts, their attempts at forensic clear-up of their criminality becomes ever more desperate. This is third recent incident of a dead fox being wrapped in a huntsman’s jacket and most hunts now routinely carry black bin-liners to stuff their dead victims in. Every day that the government delays tightening the Hunting Act is another day exploited by criminal gangs like the Blackmore & Sparkford Vale Hunt.”
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