Latest Convictions
CONVICTED: Frazer Sibley Convicted of Assaulting Hunt Saboteur
Frazer Sibley a hunt supporter has been found guilty at Chichester Magistrates Court (17 October 2006) of assaulting Christopher Black during a meet of the Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray Hunt on 17th February 2005. This was the last legal day of fox hunting in England and Wales.
Sibley of Bignor Park Road Nursery, Bignor Park Road, Bignor, West Sussex, RH20 1HG was given a two year Conditional Discharge and ordered to pay £250 costs. On 25th August 2006, Lewes Crown Court fined hunt supporter Wayne Spencer £400 with £700 costs for an assault during the same incident. More...
Video: Frazer Sibley and Wayne Spencer unprovoked attacks
CONVICTED: Christopher Marles guilty of monitor attack
A COUNTRYSIDE Alliance supporter and a whipper-in for the East Devon Hunt has been found guilty of attacking a campaigner who was filming a hunting event. Christopher Marles, 44, of Farringdon, near Exeter, repeatedly punched Kevin Hill, a hunt monitor with the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
Exeter Crown Court heard that Mr Hill, 56, from Beaminster, Dorset, suffered a bleeding face as well as a black eye during the attack.
Sixteen-stone Marles was bailed for sentencing to 23 October and the judge ordered that in the meantime he should not attend any hunting event. More...
CONVICTED: Wayne Spencer assaulted a hunt saboteur
A Countryside Alliance supporter has been convicted of attacking a hunt saboteur on the last day before hunting with dogs was banned on February last year. Video footage shown in court shows Spencer threatening hunt saboteur prior to the attack.
Farm worker, Wayne Spencer, 39, of Oakhurst Lane, Billingshurst, West Sussex, was found guilty of assaulting Simon Clear but amazingly cleared of actual bodily harm.
The incident happened after the final meet of Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray Hunt at Petworth Park, West Sussex. A judge fined Spencer £400 with £700 costs at Lewes Crown Court on Friday 25th Aug. 06. He was cleared of unlawfully wounding another protester, Carol Tibbets. More...
Video: Frazer Sibley and Wayne Spencer unprovoked attacks
GUILTY: John Wesley Admits Three Offences
John Wesley, a Crawley and Horsham hunt "supporter", pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention, having no insurance and failing to report an accident.
On what should have been the first day of the trial, John Wesley pleaded guilty. Horsham magistrates, Sussex gave Wesley 9 points on his licence but he received less than £500 in fines, costs and compensation, and was only ordered to pay £80 of more than £2,000 damage he caused, after he rammed a hunt monitor's minibus off the road. The incident had occurred during the first meet of the Crawley and Horsham hunt after the introduction of the Hunting Act in February 2005. Wesley is already banned from driving having been convicted for having no insurance on a more recent occasion. More...
Head of hunt issues chilling threat to anti hunt campaigners
"You
are all fair game, I've told everyone" says Kim Richardson,
the "money-man" and head of the West Sussex based
Crawley and Horsham Hunt. Seconds after this video was shot,
a hunt supporter head-butted a 17 year old anti hunt campaigner
in front of Richardson, breaking his nose, which required
surgery. Police have now said there is insufficient evidence
to prosecute. Kim Richardson is the son of the late Sir Michael
Richardson who was know as "Mr Privatisation" and
was a darling of Lady Thatcher during the 1980s. However,
before Sir Michael's recent death, he was thrown out of the
City by the Regulator for "practices that could have
faciliated money laundering", and forced to pay the Regulator
£70,000 in costs. Kim has now inherited his father's
fortune and is known as a bullying playboy. Video
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