PRIVATE CASE AGAINST HUNT FOUR

Isle of Wight County Press

THE League Against Cruel Sports has taken out a private prosecution against four members of the IW Hunt.

In May, the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to proceed with a prosecution of the same four men, who were arrested at their homes in dawn raids and held in the cells for 15 hours before being released without charge.

Now the League Against Cruel Sports is taking out its own prosecution at the IW Magistrates’ Court over the same alleged incident.

The four men summonsed are Jamie Butcher, of Ashey Road, Ryde; Liam Thom, of Highwood Lane, Rookley, and Stuart Trousdale, of The Kennels, Gatcombe, who are all charged with hunting a fox with dogs and Malcolm Purcell, of Blackwater Mill Farm, Blackwater, who is charged with hunting with dogs, all on November 29, 2006.

The case was adjourned until July 2.

A spokesman for the League Against Cruel Sports said it would be the third prosecution it had taken out in the country. He said the other two cases had been won and the defendants fined.

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