Catch up on recent news from the Hunt Saboteurs Association
As more hunts receive police warnings and notices, are they a route to meaningful action, or a substitute for it? Many of you cannot have failed to notice that we are writing more and more about hunts being issued with Community Protection Warnings (CPWs) and, occasionally, the CPW’s big sister, the Community Protection Notice (CPN). […]
It’s hard to believe that it was only the 23rd of September that we published an article with updates of what had happened during the hunting season so far, when so much has happened since then. Below we take a look at what has happened in the last few weeks of September. Plymouth and West […]
After last year’s embarrassing Farcical Friday, the pro-blood sports lobby group, the British Hound Sports Association (BHSA), has somehow managed to surpass itself in the ridiculousness stakes – and it’s not even Smokescreen Saturday yet! By now, you might have thought the hunting fraternity would have learned to exercise a little more care when selecting […]
On 14 September 2026, former Prime Minister David Cameron joined the Countryside Alliance in another performance of defending so-called trail hunting at an event in Westminster. Four days later, on 18 September, the Heythrop Hunt – a hunt Cameron has ridden with and was seen attending earlier this year – was out near Lower Swell […]
Claire Bellamy, 51, veteran huntswoman for the Lauderdale Hunt, became the first fox hunter convicted under Scotland’s new hunting laws, following a case in which footage captured by Glasgow Hunt Saboteurs exposed illegal hunting taking place beyond the boundaries of licensed operation. On Monday, 5 October 2026, Bellamy, the former master and huntsman was found […]
Thanks to Wiltshire Hunt Sabs for this guest post, who, alongside Cirencester Illegal Hunt Watch, Bristol Hunt Sabs and Bath Hunt Sabs, have been keeping the pressure on the Beaufort Hunt. The Duke of Beaufort’s Hunt is one of Britain’s most prominent fox hunts and has been terrorising wildlife across the countryside surrounding the Badminton […]
The private schools schooling children in a masterclass of wildlife criminality. Recently we revealed the full footage of the Stowe School Beagles during what school headteacher, Dr Anthony Wallersteiner, describes as a “huge variety of activities” available to pupils, including “field games…beagling”. The school’s Games Coach, Phillip Kennedy, was in the fields surrounding Crockwell Farm, […]
Eggesford Hunt huntsman Jason Marles has been convicted of illegally hunting a fox with hounds following an incident captured on drone footage during the hunt’s Boxing Day meet in December 2025. Marles, 44, pleaded guilty to hunting a wild mammal with dogs at Pudson Farm, near Okehampton, when he appeared before Exeter Magistrates’ Court on […]
Three people associated with the Mendip Farmers Hunt have pleaded not guilty to hunting a wild mammal with dogs. Emma Clothier, Charlie Thomas and Bill Payne appeared at Taunton Deane Magistrates’ Court on 15 September 2026. All three pleaded not guilty and are due to face trial on 15 September 2027. The case relates to […]
Cub hunting or ‘autumn hunting’ as it is referred to by hunts, has been underway for a few weeks now and already we are seeing overwhelming reports of foxes running for their lives and aggressive behaviour from hunts whose illegal activity is being exposed. On the 15th of September the North Cotswold Hunt descended on […]
At long last, charges have been issued against members of a stag hunt. Avon and Somerset Police have charged Quantock Staghounds hunt master Chris Gibbons and huntsman Martin Watts with illegally hunting a wild mammal with dogs in relation to an incident on March 16, 2026. Watts faces a further charge relating to a separate […]
Thirty-two years on from the controversy of the Barle stag, the excuses may have changed, but for the hunted stag the suffering is horribly familiar. More than three decades have passed since the death of the Barle stag became one of the most notorious episodes associated with stag hunting on Exmoor. Yet for those who […]
At the beginning of this year the Hunt Saboteurs Association was sent some of the most disturbing images we have seen in over sixty years of campaigning against bloodsports. They show a young child having their face smeared with the blood of a freshly slaughtered fox by huntsman Conall McGrath, then of the Flint & […]
A terrified stag made a dramatic leap for his life on the 24th August, leaping over hunt supporters who were attempting to prevent him from escaping onto land where the Quantock Staghounds could not follow. Incredible footage of the hunt and the stag’s subsequent escape – albeit temporary – was captured by Dorset Borders Hunt […]
On Thursday 4th June Phillip Kennedy, 48, kennel huntsman of the Stowe School Beagles – the hunt of the prestigious Buckinghamshire private school of the same name – pleaded guilty to the illegal hunting of a wild mammal with dogs contrary to the Hunting Act 2005 at Northampton Magistrates Court. With such overt cruelty and […]
Cub hunting, leveret hunting and stag hunting all started during August, while mink hunting has continued over the summer, meaning sab groups have been working hard, whilst tackling hot and dry weather conditions. The HSA as a collective has also been busy exposing blood sports; as well as working in the field to save lives […]
Today the Hunt Saboteurs Association can exclusively reveal the full footage that led to the recent conviction of Stowe School Beagles Kennel Huntsman Philip Kennedy for killing a hare in November 2025. This is the first step in our campaign to shut down this hunt. The footage shows both the extent of the cruelty of […]
The recent conviction of packs such as the Stowe School Beagles, the Pipewell Foot Beagles and the Dorset & Somerset Bassets have highlighted the ongoing issue of illegal hare hunting. But far from being deterred by their paltry fines, these and other packs will shortly be beginning their programme of illegal leveret hunting. What Is […]
In 2023, the UN released General Comment No. 26. This document updates the famous UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It explicitly states children must be kept safe from witnessing violence, including physical or psychological harm inflicted on animals. Yet every week across the UK children are taken out to participate in hunting, […]
The HSA has continually shared footage and information exposing the destruction and cruelty caused by the shooting industry. The extent of the persecution knows no bounds with badgers, foxes, corvids and all manner of wildlife being killed as the land is stripped of any natural balance just to appease those in tweed. So, as is […]
