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I hope he goes abseiling soon...without any equipment...

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Probably one of the 'country people' maintaining a country habit which the dispicable Countryside Alliance readily defend.

I wonder who paid for his defense in court.

I wonder if it was prearranged for him to have just a tap on the wrist because, funny handshakes & all that, the scrote is useful & does what he is told for members of their corrupt club for a pat on the back & some bank notes, in return for persecuting wildlife & attacking those who peacefully try to ensure no wildlife is harmed.

It is a big club.

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Glad he was jailed but 8 weeks was nowhere near long enough for the crime he committed.

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Shame he didn't slip, come 'unhooked' from his gear and break his neck

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What a shame his abseil didnt go wrong and give him a disabling fall stopping any further nest robbing. How these poor birds must feel to arrive back to an empty nest is anyones guess. How would these scumbags feel to go home to find their kids had been abducted? Same scenario. Lost family. So pleased hes got jail, sadly not long enough. Hope if he puts a toe out of place, hes back inside. Same for all other nest robbers. Its so bloody cruel.

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Not a disabling fall as that would put even more pressure on our failing NHS, 100 percent disabling preferable!!

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Filthy Feral scum, should have got 10 years.

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And when all the birds are gone what then, butterflies, moths, big game? I heard china's looking for candidates for its forced labour camps.

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I just...I can't even think of words to describe someone like this man. These are grown people with only money on their minds no matter what....I just...sorry I still can't think of a word bad enough.

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Whilst the sentence is paltry and probably would have been a lot less or non-existent if not for his other offences, it is probably a victory for those who feel that Derbyshire police is not the most 'robust' of forces when it comes to wildlife crime!

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Just tragic. Can't he earn money in any normal way? To think that these birds' ancesters have been around for 160 million years throughout immense evolutionary change - from fast-running, ground-dwelling bipedal theropods to small, winged flying birds when this thieving specimen's ancesters were only amoebas....

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Now the excuse this vermin will give is hes a drug addict and needed cash to feed his filthy habit NO EXCUSES TAKING A PROTECTED SPECIES EGGS this country makes me so mad that they constantly bowing down to people who are addicts or play the mental health card he knew what he was doing when he went down there pitiful sentence he,ll be back out doing it again coz its feeding his disgusting habit, well done the RSPB for filming this scum pity the rope didnt snap 😡

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Jan 20Edited

Lock him up !!! He’s committed a couple of crimes by doing this !!!

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I did use to find and collect discarded egg shells on the ground near my grandparents flat after the young birds had already fledged the nest and the mother bird had discarded them from the nest. (I once saw a mother bird fly by and dropped a whole discarded egg right by me that I picked up and kept. It was a whole virtually intact empty egg with the hole in the middle where the chick had broken out of! So amazing) I had no idea that the eggs collectors had, had been stolen from the nests with the chicks inside them (Is that correct?)! As for falconry, I don't have great knowledge about it but I am fine with it unless it is where someone is killing an animal or using an animal (such as a dog or falcon bird of prey) to set upon and kill another animal. That is barbarically cruel, unethically evil and downright wrong and from what I read here about illegal falconry, that needs to be banned everywhere! The "punishment" this despicable "person" got was literally just a small smack on the wrist and nothing more. As Charlie Moores correctly said, "he" got a higher sentence for shoplifting, shoplifting! (Shoplifting is still rightly a crime but the taking of eggs and/or a life/lives is far more of a crime and needing far stronger punishment than shoplifting does!)

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I cannot believe the short sentence he has got away with !! Maybe 10 years, a hefty fine and his hands removed so he wont be taking anymore birds eggs. Or just hung from his rope.

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Eight weeks? It should have been eight months. Or in my world, eight years.

How do they think that eight weeks is a suitable punishment and an effective deterent?

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Eight weeks isn't long enough.

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