Answers on a postcard?
Laws for thee, but not for me.
Just why are Wessex CPS and Wiltshire Police always afraid to put the βserial killingβ Duke of Beaufort Hunt in court?
Read our article about how the latest fox kill and police-assisted cover-up π open.substack.com/pub/wiltshir...
An offshore investment company, is murdering British wildlife and inflicting grotesque cruelty, right on our doorstep for the sake of tweeded-morons and their bloodsports.
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The trap would have been set completely illegally - they are supposed to be set in a tunnel to minimise the risk to non-target species. Historically we have even attempted a rescue of a badger with one on their foot on a golf course! 2/4
We were recently alerted to this fox, a regular visitor to the garden - with a spring-loaded trap stuck to their foot.
These traps are popular with gamekeepers, but have also been found on allotments, and we suspect in this case possibly even in a garden. 1/4 π§΅
In 2023 an allotment holder was prosecuted for causing the death and unnecessary suffering of a barn owl, after also illegally setting one of these traps. Sadly the badger on the golf course did not survive the infection and we suspect the same outcome for this poor fox. 3/4
Despite the best effort of rescuers & the householders, the fox could not be located for treatment.
The misuse of these traps is covered under the Animal Welfare Act. Designed to kill outright, but non-target animals are often slow-suffering victims of these vile traps. 4/4
Have you ever seen anything so pathetic? Bin Bag Betty cleaning up a wildlife crimeβfreshly slaughtered fox remains in that bin bag. The biggest cover-up came from Wessex CPS, refusing to act, aided by a police officer who took our evidence. Read more π open.substack.com/pub/wiltshir...
Last month this fox was saved from certain death after they were discovered in a snare on a Wiltshire shooting estate.
Watch this space this week for the full story of how this offshore-registered shooting estate are systematically destroying local British wildlife.