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The Somerset-based ‘Weston & Banwell with West Somerset Vale Hunt’ deliberately hunted and killed a fox last Wednesday, the 31st January. Sabs from Mendip, Bristol, and Somerset groups were in attendance and saved several other foxes throughout the day.
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However, when the hunt moved on to scrubland around Cripp’s Bridge, sabs were unable to stop the hounds from flushing a fox and ripping her to pieces in a field.
In an attempt to hide evidence of their criminality, a hunt rider tried to retrieve the broken body of the fox but left behind the poor animal’s hind legs, tail, and entrails.
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As would be expected from an Organised Crime Group (OCG), the hunters were aggressive to sabs throughout the day: screaming, making false allegations, and using their vehicles to block in a sab car.
Perhaps more surprisingly, this OCG was assisted by a Police Community Support Officer who tried
to harass sabs and thought his duties including acting as gate-opener for the hunt!
He must have missed last week’s Channel 4 News report on fox hunting in which Inspector Oliver Fisher of the National Wildlife Crime Unit describes sabs and then hunters as follows:
“The fact is that one side are trying to stop something illegal, and the other side is intent on perpetuating some illegal activity.”
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