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Video: Gamekeeper jailed in Scotland for killing bird of prey

Video: Gamekeeper jailed in Scotland for killing bird of prey

January 24, 2015December 23, 2019 Supertrooper 5 Comments

A gamekeeper who trapped and killed birds of prey has been jailed for four months. George Mutch, 48, was sentenced at Aberdeen Sheriff Court after being convicted of laying illegal traps and killing a goshawk by hitting it with a stick. It is the first custodial sentence for the crime of persecuting raptors, or birds […]

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Gamekeeper sentenced for poisoning birds as judge warns landowners

Gamekeeper sentenced for poisoning birds as judge warns landowners

November 30, 2014December 23, 2019 Supertrooper Leave a comment

A judge has warned Britain’s rural aristocracy that they must take responsibility for the actions of their employees after a gamekeeper was sentenced for poisoning birds of prey. The RSPB described the killing of 11 birds of prey by Allen Lambert, former gamekeeper at the Stody estate near Holt in Norfolk, as the worst case […]

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Gamekeeper found guilty of poisoning 10 buzzards and a sparrowhawk

Gamekeeper found guilty of poisoning 10 buzzards and a sparrowhawk

October 9, 2014December 23, 2019 Supertrooper Leave a comment

A gamekeeper found with a bag of nine dead buzzards on a pheasant-shooting estate has been found guilty of intentionally killing a protected species in what is England’s worst recorded case of poisoning birds of prey. Allen Lambert, gamekeeper for 24 years at the Stody Estate in Norfolk, will be sentenced next month after being […]

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