CHARLES CARTER: Police issue notorious hunter second Community Resolution Order
Huntsman for the Royal Artillery Hunt in the firing line yet again
Wiltshire Police has issued Charles Carter, huntsman for the Royal Artillery Hunt (RAH), with a Community Resolution Order (CRO). The CRO is his second in 18 months, and was given to him after he assaulted a female hunt saboteur.
The incident took place in February 2024. Salisbury Plain Hunt Saboteurs gave a detailed account of the day. The sabs wrote:
"famously pompous Charles Carter lost the plot. Eerily, but somewhat predictably, the creepy sex pest started riding his horse into and repeatedly whipping a female sab."
When calling Carter a "sex pest", the sabs are likely referring to his appearance in court in 2017, after he was filmed making comments to a female hunt saboteur such as "I'd quite like to shag you..." A Tory councillor at the time, Carter was forced to resign from his position.
Salisbury Plain Hunt Saboteurs continued, saying:
"[Carter was] screaming "get away from me" like a deranged dervish. He was so out of control that Beverly Martin, who usually baits sabs, got her horse in front of the female sab being viciously assaulted. This was appreciated as Carter, the unstoppable misogynist, had completely lost the plot by this point. The sab was extremely lucky not to have been seriously harmed as the behaviour was dangerous and he clearly meant to harm her."
Sabs took video footage of the incident, which you can view here.
Renowned for intimidation
Carter is renowned for losing his temper, and was issued with his first CRO for ripping the bumper off a monitor’s car in November 2022. Immediately following this incident, he was also filmed running down two saboteurs with his car in December 2022. A video shows Carter deliberately turning his vehicle around to drive into the sabs. One person can be seen laying on the ground as Carter drives away. The police took no action against him for this incident.
A hunt saboteur told Protect the Wild at the time:
“He absolutely lost his temper, shouting ‘what the hell are you doing there?’ – I’m not going to use the exact terms he was using – and quite quickly caught up with us. He then forced his whip that he uses to control the hounds with, the handle, into my friend’s face.”
The sab continued:
“He drove past us once or twice and then went up onto the grass, did a U-turn… I went to get my hand-held camera out, and he was sat right behind us, slowly revving the engine, not excessive, and then just drove straight towards us. By the time I had chance to do anything, he basically smacked me into the side, knocked me to the ground.”
Then in March 2023 Carter and RAH whipper-in Guy Loader were both issued official warnings by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) Police. The men violated a bye-law when they didn't keep their hounds under control while hunting on 22 October 2022. That time, Salisbury Plain Monitors filmed Carter taking no action as the RAH hounds chased deer across a field.
Carter isn't the only RAH hunter who has been cautioned by the police for intimidation and violence. Protect the Wild has previously written about others who have been warned by the police here.
End Hunting on MOD land
This latest warning against Carter should be a wake-up call to the MOD. The Defence Infrastructure Organisation - the arm of the MOD which grants licences to hunt on Defence land - has not listened to years of calls from animal welfare campaigners, urging it to ban hunting. Most major landowners, such as the National Trust, have already banned trail hunting on their land. Under the Tories, the MOD refused to ban the bloodsport, despite ample evidence showing that chases and kills were taking place on Salisbury Plain.
Even with a new anti-hunting Labour Defence Secretary, John Healey, the MOD hasn't budged, and licences are still being granted to hunts such as the RAH. We urge Healey to look at the ample evidence showing that illegal hunting is taking place on MOD land and take urgent action to ban hunts. Add your name to the petition and open letter to the Defence Secretary here.
Sounds like an absolute (swearword)!! It says something about just how bad "he" is if another, fellow scum hunter to "him", actually seemed to shield the brave sab from "him"!! Disgusting "person"!! I have already signed the petition to the Defence Secretary but I just wish I could do so much more to help. Where I live, the council have now stopped the funding for the air show that used to happen only once a year, an ethical and enjoyable to watch/hear kind of tourism, yet barbaric hunting (sham "trail hunting") is still continuing and being virtually unmentioned by parliament and untouched by the so called law if it wasn't for the kind and brave sabs!!! I am still sending an email to my newly elected Labour MP once EVERY 2 weeks (most recent being this Friday just gone with the link about that poor stag) but I have only got 1 reply back so far to one of my emails sent to him via a Four Paws email action, and said (well quoted) in roughly the same statement like tone as Labour's election manifesto, claiming that Labour will "ban trophy hunting so called "imports", ban puppy smuggling, create a roadmap to end animal testing, ban snares in England, end foie gras imports and (supposedly) "work with farmers and scientists to eradicate TB and end the badger cull" but conveniently, he didn't mention ending sham trail hunting or banning the import of fur at all (which was one of Four Paw's asks)!! I have still not yet received a single reply back from him in response to any of my emails regarding sick hunting!! I was also very surprised to find that the only main requirements for someone to become an MP are for them to be 1. Over 18 years old, 2. To be a UK citizen and 3. To not be a member of the police force, a member of the armed forces, a judge or a civil servant, someone who is subject to a bankruptcy order or someone who has had their property sequestered (in Scotland): https://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/members/electing-mps/candidates/ (I always thought there was a lot more that was required to become an MP!!). Also, I was extremely surprised and shocked to learn that there is apparently NO formal qualifications required in order to become an MP either: https://www.professions.co.uk/careers/how-to-become-an-mp/ !!! (I always thought, again, that all MP's needed at least 1 formal law qualification at the very least!!) Scrapping the Universal winter fuel allowance for pensioners, cutting England's nature friendly farming budget (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/sep/03/englands-nature-friendly-farming-budget-to-be-cut-by-100m) and claiming that there is an apparent 22bn pound black hole, all whilst yet blatantly (and conveniently) completely forgetting that MP's and the so called "monarchy" get thousands and millions of pounds of taxpayer money each month, even more money than most vets and doctors even get each month, VETS and DOCTORS!!! Not even mentioning the government wasting millions of pounds for bear skin caps for the "king's" guards when ethical faux fur alternatives have already been offered (and the offer is still standing strong now) for FREE of taxpayer charge until 2030, continuing to "honour" existing "licences" to kill innocent badgers until 2029, even though Labour's OWN words called the "cull" "INEFFECTIVE" and is a completely uneccessary waste of thousands of pounds and lives and the taxpayer subsidies for free food and drink for MP's in parliament, which MP's have certainly more than enough money to pay for solely by themselves!!! It all just makes me so enraged 🤬🤬🤬!! As a fellow supporter on here also said "the money is there but it is going to the completely wrong places"!!
My apologies for the angry rant, I just get so angered and fed up with the glaringly obvious hypocrisy and inequality of it all, for all animals and good people. I just want to see the killing of all innocent animals and the blatant inequality and hypocrisy of it all stopped once and for all for good!! If only everyone was like us here, the world would be a much better place (sigh) 😓.
An investigation should be launched to discover why he is not yet in jail! Unbelievably violent lunatic!