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Another fascinating, eye opening piece (for me) guys, keep naming and shaming the wildlife criminals!!

Huge gratitude to the legends on the ground once again… their selfless commitment is without doubt bringing the demise of the despicable humans murdering our wildlife.

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The seriousness that surrounds the whole appetite for Murder is very disturbing to a civilised country. Dual personality and pshycotic tendencies just keep showing their faces here. Vile hunters with time to much time clearly thinking....We are above the law, in bed with the Police. As an anti hunt person I am seeing more action from the good. Yet how do we deal with the corruption too.

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Hi Trevellyan. How do we deal with the corruption? It's a good question but one without a simple answer. It's very deep-rooted of course and far too many officers don't see hunting as a real 'crime'. More are starting to do though, defiitely. Our response therefore has to be to mercilessly flag it and publicise it. On its own that may not create the turning point we all want to see, but as the evidence builds and the public mood changes, we and other groups are all creating pressure that is going to tell sooner now rather than later.

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Thank you. I am extremely grateful for the wonderful people who also think the same as me. I feel like we need a boost, like a good newspaper and tv channel. Anyone there????

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And at last a police force we can have some faith and confidence in. Thank you Humberside. As for North Yorkshire. Well they’ll get no help from me

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Another great piece from the Secret Monitor and nice to see some naming and shaming too. If we make these people pariah’s in their communities it will act as a disincentive to others who think they can persecute wildlife with impunity. Keep the pressure on !

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Spot on Ian. I’d add please expose the companies these vermin own/control/ directors of. ID them so we can all avoid ever going near them with our cash

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Well done to the secret monitor and PTW. Please keep it up!! You are heroes!! What I truly want to say here about these sick monsters would be swearing, which I am too polite to say but definitely feel!! I can't believe (well, I can but I hope you know what I mean) that a CHILDREN'S AUTHOR and an EQUINE VET, a VET especially support this!!!!! Vets are supposed to care about animals (or at least the good ones are meant to)!!! I sincerely hope that they both get boycotted for this and lose their jobs. How can someone write those horrid things about animals to children and help horses yet advocate for killing innocent foxes??!! I just don't understand. It makes me wonder, how many more people who we think love animals support killing these beautiful creatures (foxes, hares, deers etc)?!! I was truly shocked to find out from someone here that Jennifer Saunders and her daughter support this!!!! As someone who liked her as a good actress and then found out that, I don't know what to think anymore.

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Add the Royal Family to the list .

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Very true!

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I agree with you, Cara, especially sickening that an equine vet hunts. Has really put me off Jennifer Saunders and her family after learning they support hunting too.

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I completely agree with you Helen. I feel the exact same way. I worry on how many more other celebrities claim to "love animals" but whose actions show sadly anything but.

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It seems that the legal concept of "intent" is the bugbear here. After all, thanks to the brave efforts of the hunt sabs, there is ample good quality evidence of illegality against the hunts and their "staff". Surely drone, phone and dashcam evidence of hounds running rampant, without any degree of effective control is such as to confer a degree of recklessness that would render intent as proven, particularly when it is obvious that hounds are not following a trail. If you are reckless as to the outcome of your actions, intent is not far behind. It only takes one case to create a precedent that will bind all. Perhaps a civil case rather than a criminal prosecution would be more effective as they care more about money than reputation.

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Hi Lisa. The problem here is that 'recklessness' was left out of the Hunting Act (no doubt deliberately) so in law (as we understand it) there is no way to prosecute 'reckless hunting'. There are other times when 'recklessness' could be used - assault or criminal damage, perhaps - but there would still need to be a pile of evidence to convict. Intent is incrediby difficult to prove in court but has been a mainstay of law since an unrelated ruling in the House of Lords - not sure if you saw the post but we looked at that in some depth in https://protectthewild.substack.com/p/what-did-it-take-to-convict-huntsman

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Spoilt, nauseous, upperclass knobs with no right to do as they please, everything handed to them on a silver platter they need to be brought down to earth they know their days are numbered and are clutching at any loophole they can to evade a law that was passed no amount of cash or land ownership gives these ratbags the right to persecute OUR wildlife the sooner all hunt activity is banned the safer our countryside and wildlife will be and well done the seceret monitor 👍

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they are all vile miscreants, the planet would be better without them

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To live in darkness is terrible and to do such evil is a crime against nature. To willingly want to see a wild animal in fear of its life and to be at the mercy of some humans is sooo cruel soo cruel,but, these humans are warped and do not see the light !. What it will take for them to actually have a change of heart regarding such evil on innocent animals who do nothing to humans is a question I find no answer to. We are all from the same life force just in different physical bodies ! therefore to me we are all equal . A fox ,a dog ,a bird ,me ,you , a life is a life . Spiritually animals are more clued up than most humans are.

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I Completely agree with you!

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William Bethell, a Don Juan??? For who? Frankenstein?

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Ha. Perfect, A wannabe, Claudette, a sexual legend in his own opinion only :)

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🤣sexual legend ive seen more appealing mouldy fruit the mans defo delirious

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Interbreeding doesn't do much for the brain cells and an awful lot of these idiots have been marrying cousins for centuries "to keep it in the family - literally".

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Spot on Margaret. Not far between farms. At least they are giving the sheep a break.

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🤣🤣🤣 naughty Larraine!

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🤣🤣🤣brilliant there all proper F ups

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You "SABS and MONITORS", you must leave the "HUNTERS and FOLLOWERS" alone to "RIP that FOX" to pieces, they get so much "PLEASURE" out of it, up they get on their "HORSE'S and MACHINES" and out they go for a days "FUN", so please leave them alone, what if it was "YOU" going out for a nice days "FUN" and you had this "SICKNESS" that these poor people have, that just wants to see a "WILD ANIMAL" ripped to pieces, you must know it's in there "GENEALOGY" that goes back for "GENERATIONS" of "SICKNESS", it's so sad, maybe one day the "SICKNESS" in their "MIND", maybe, "HOPEFULLY" one day this "DEPRAVITY/SICKNESS" will be gone from their "MIND HEART SOUL", then they will wake up one morning, look out the window and see the "AMAZING" BEAUTIFUL" earth and its "AMAZING" BEAUTIFUL" "WILDLIFE", it breaks my "HEART" to see/hear the sheer "SAVAGERY" and the "BRUTALITY" of all this "DEATH", how come it does not affect the HUNTERS".

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I admire your dedication and efforts… well done brave Sabs… Good luck to foxes ❤️

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Really well written and informative article. Have so much admiration and awe for all the brave sabs out there. Thank you Secret Monitor, acting with such dignity and intelligence. 🙏🏻

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Excellent expose of many of these criminal practices.I shall keep them and use them when I discuss cruet to animals with friends.I was particularly interested in what you have to say about the treatment of foxhounds.

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I do not think it is always corruption, it is the need to please. Those in authority always have someone higher than them, always someone thought more important, because of their status. That is why the sickening sports carried out by the non status, such as dog fighting, badger baiting, cock fighting, are against the law. But laws are made by those in authority, who need to please those above them.

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