• Huntsman,Jonathan Broise will appear for trial at Lewes Crown Court on October 25th, 04 where he is charged with causing Actual Bodily Harm. The trial is expected to last 8 days. Broise appeared for a Plea and Directions hearing on May 27th 04 at Lewes Crown Court and pleaded Not Guilty. The case has arisen from an incident during a cub hunt of the Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray hounds at Graffham, W. Sussex on 27th September of last year, when Broise is alleged to have ridden into Wendy Bridle, a 60 year old anti hunt protester from Shoreham. Broise was arrested on the 27th Sept. 04 but in connection to another alleged assault on a protester. Broise "resigned" as Professional Huntsman a week later.
• It was reported in yesterdays Western Morning News newspaper (April 29) that on the 28th of April Hunt Master Stephen Parkin age 42 from Whitemoor, mid Cornwall, pleaded guilty to causing suffering to an 11-month old fox hound. The foxhound, Roxy, was part of the South Cornwall Hunt pack. When RSPCA officers inspected the kennels Roxy was emaciated and lethargic. She weighed just 12.3 kilos (very light for a fox hound - now she is fully recovered she weighs 25.75 kilos). She also had ulcers in the mouth. When her kennel was inspected it was found to contain "very damp" straw that smelt of urine and there was a whole in the roof that let in the rain. Following his arrest Parkin resigned as Hunt Master and the South Cornwall Hunt has subsequently disbanded. Sentencing has been adjourned until the 6th of May, but Parkin is expected to walk free with a mere community penalty to serve.

• Tony Kirkham (58) and son Timothy (20) who are both keen supporters of the Cheshire Foxhounds and Cheshire Forest Hunt were arrested outside the civic hsll which was staging The Cheshire Foxhounds Farmers Hunt Ball. They both appeared at Crewe Magistrates in August 2003 and were found guilty of resisting a police officer and sentenced to 200 hours community service. They were both also found guilty of assault and sentenced to 200 hours community service to run consecutively. They were ordered to pay £300 costs, and £50 compensation.

• Pro-hunt farmer Robert Venner ordered to pay £4000 compensation to the LACS after he broke an awning and smashed a windscreen at the League's stand at the 1997 Devon show.
• Member of the Vale of Aylesbury FH Georgina Blundell cautioned by police after a hunt monitor was ridden into by Blundell's horse.
• Clive D. Wenham, joint master of the Bolbroke Beagles, convicted of Assault and Abusive Behaviour on a 63 year old woman when she encountered the Beagles on a road. Wenham coshed the woman over the head with his whip, knocking her to the ground. He was find £1000 for the assault and £600 for the abusive behaviour.
• Anthony Kirkham, (see also 1995), was finally jailed for his part in what the judge described as the 'cruel beating' of a LACS monitor. The man was chased across a field, sprayed in the face with a liquid, hit over the head with a bottle and repeatedly hit in the head when he fell. Kirkham told te man: 'We've got you now; you're dead' as he pulled him to his feet and ripped a camera worth £1300 from his neck. Kirkham was jailed for 15 months.
• Paul Martin, (see also 1994) and his father Bernard Martin convicted of Affray and Paul's uncleColin Martin convicted of Threatening Behaviour after they broke into the back of a sab van and attacked the occupants with spades and wooden staves. A sab photographing the event was dragged from the van and beaten while the family of thugs tried to remove his film.
• Simon Williams. kennel-man of the South Devon FH bound over for a year after being charged with Threatening Behaviour towards a sab, (the kind of threatening behaviour that involves a 5ft metal pole).
• The huntsman of the North Norfolk Harriers, Boyce Keeling, was successfully convicted of an Assault on a local saboteur whom he beat with the handle of his whip.
• Supporter of the Dunston Harriers, Patrick Evertett managed to get the hunt banned from one village after he viciously attacked a party of one man, two women and four children who had stopped to watch the hunt pass by. He was fined £800.

1996

• Surrey Union FH supporters Gary John Moore pleaded gulty to charges of Common Assault and Affray after an unprovoked attack on local saboteurs outside a pub. At the time of his arrest the police had to drag him off his victim who had already been beaten to the ground. Even while he was restrained Moore attempted to kick the saboteur in the head. He was fined £500.
• David Wooley, Joint of the Cheshire FH, cautioned after making a 2am phone call to the NW regional representative of the LACS. He said to have threatened: "I'm going to kill you bitch."
• Three supporters of the Vales of Clettwr FH bound over to keep the peace for a year after an incident where a sab van was surrounded and the driver dragged out and held upside down. Terrierman Emyr Davies and supporters John Galmore Jones and John Geraint Owens denied Violent Disorder and theft of six items of sabbing equipment.

1995

• Leading supporter of the Surrey Union FH, Noel Cahill, arrested after an attack on saboteurs left one person hospitalised. Police searching his home found a death threat ready to be posted to the Hunt Saboteurs Association Press Office.
• Anthony Kirkham, supporter of the Cheshire FH, received a twelve month prison sentence (suspended on appeak) for attacking a lone female sab who had gone to get help after their van had been attacked by hunt heavies. When Kirkham caught up with her, he beat and kicked her to the ground.
• Amateur whip of the New Forest FH John Mitchell found guilty of Careless Driving after sandwhiching a Southampton saboteur between a van and a Landrover, running over the victim's foot and hitting him with the wing mirror. A police officer witnessed the incident. Fined £180 and £150 costs and seven penalty points on his licence.
• John Edward Wedmore, terrierman for the Mendip Farmers FH found guilty of three counts of Assault after he launched an attack on three LACS hunt monitors.

• William Howells, Forestry Commission worker and supporter of the New Forest Buck Hounds found guilty of smashing a video camera belonging to the New Forest Animal Protection Group. Ordered to pay £443 compensation and given a 12 month Conditional Discharge.
• Kenneth Mansbridge, a supporter of the Hursley Hambledon FH, convicted of Unlawful Wounding on a Green Party researcher who needed hospital treatment for serious head injuries after being kicked and beaten by a group of hunt followers. Mansbridge admitted kicking the victim in the groin and punching him to the ground (on the same day another protestor was beaten around the head with a spade and left needing ten stitches and a six and a half month pregnant woman was hit on the head with a brick requiring four stitches.) Mansbridge was sentenced to 140 hours community service and ordered to pay costs of £100.
• John Stride, a rider with the New Forest Buck Hounds, found guilty of Assault on a saboteur with his whip. Also convicted on a related charge of Criminal Damage. Fined £25 for the assault with an additional £325 to pay for damaging a map.
• Christopher Nichol, a hired hunt steward admitted Assault on a female sab who suffered cuts and bruises. Fined £370 after admitting in court that he lost his temper.
• Edward Lycett-Green, Master of the Portman FH, was given a 12 month Conditional Discharge for Criminal Damage. Originally five hunt followers including Green were charged with various offences of Affray, Violent Disorder, Assault and Theft after an incident when a trapped sab landrover had its windows smashed, a camera was smashed and stolen and the occupants including a local reporter were attacked. Unbelievably at the trial the CPS refused to offer any evidence for the Affray and Violent Disorder charges and only Green was convicted.
• Patricia Harris, a rider with the Portman FH, convicted of Criminal Damage to sab property and given (suprise, suprise) a Conditional Discharge.
• Roger Wakefield, Essex and Farmers Union terrierman was given 160 hours Community Service after being found guilty of Violent Disorder and Affray against saboteurs. Hunt supporter, Bryn Chittennden was convicted of the same offences and given 120 hours Community Service.

1992

1991

• Edward Vickery of the Quantock Stahounds, convicted of Assault after riding down and attacking a saboteur. Fined £600.
• Duncan Branch, a subscriber of the Chidingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray FH found guilty of attacking two sabs with his fists and a riding crop. Fined £400 with £250 costs and was ordered to pay £50 compensation to each of his victims.
• Mark Evans, whipper-in to the Hampshire Hunt, lost a private prosecution brought by a saboteur he had beaten with his whip. Found guilty of Assault.
• Bloodsport fanatic Jim Newbry-Street jailed for nine months after planting a bomb under his own Landrover in an attempt to discredit sabs. Interestingly, the only person in the world of 'animal rights' to ever be convicted of such an offence.
• Francis Monber, the former master of the Hampshire Hunt, given a Conditional Discharge and ordered to pay £175 compensation for smashing the windows on three sides of a saboteur's vehicle. Flying glass cut the driver's hand and occupant's mouth.
• Justin Ellis, Matthew Jones, and Charles Peach, all supporters of the Chiddinfold, Leconfield, Cowdray FH, found guilty of Affray after Ellis rammed the back a sab Landrover, and Jones and Peach attacked it, breaking several windows. Ellis was fined £400 and banned from driving while others were fined £250 each.
• Holderness huntsman, William Deakin, convicted of Criminal Damage to a sab van and given a Conditional Discharge.
• Gary Whelbrand, and Albrighton FH supporter, found guilty of fracturing a saboteur's jaw in two places and perforating his ear drum, after Whelbrand jumped the sab from behind, draggin him to the grounf in an unprovoked attack. He was convicted of ABH and was fined £250, plus costs and £75 compensation.
• Athelstone FH supporter convicted of assault and fined £200 with £138 costs and £60 compensation.
• Vale of White Horse FH whipper-in, Mather Calcot was ordered to pay £130 compensation and was bound over for a year in the sum of £100 after the windscreen of Oxfords HSA's van was smashed.
• The South and West Wilts FH's kennel-man sacked after being convicted of Threatening Behaviour. He had violently attacked a sab's car with people inside. He was also convicted of drink driving at the time, something many other hunt supporters would fall foul of if the police were less interested in saboteurs. Many drink before, during and after a days hunting.
• Stephan Thane, whipper-in to the Chiddingfold FH, convicted of Assault and Battery after riding down a group of saboteurs, given one year's Conditional Discharge and ordered to pay £170 costs.
• New Forest terrierman, Keith Colbert and hunt supporter Adrian Bungay both given Conditional Discharges after a hunt saboteur was attacked during a meet of the hunt.
• Three hunt thugs convicted of Affray and Reckless Driving after they had chased sabs around fields before attacking them.
• Nigel Trevithick - Wood, husband of Old Surrey and Burstow FH joint master received a six month suspended prison sentence for punching a sab in the face at a fox cub hunt meet. In a related incident, whipper-in now huntsman Mark Bycroft was also found guilty of Assault and ordered to do Community Service.
• Keith Knobbs, New Forest FH terrierman and Nick Stevens South Dorset FH kennel-man both fined £200 for Criminal Damage to a sab vehicle. The car, with sabs inside it, had been overturned a a meet of the South Dorset FH.

1990

• Hunt supporter John Newberry-Street gained much valuable anti-saboteur publicity when a nail-bomb was found under his Land Rover. Further investigation revealed that he had planted the bomb himself and he later told police "I did it to discredit the animal rights saboteurs". He was jailed for nine months for his bomb hoax and asked for several other similar offences to be taken into account.

1984

• Supporters of the Puckeridge FH, Ronald Edwards and his son Steven were bound over for a year in the sum of £200 after an 'incident' in which a sab was beaten unconscious. Another hunt heavy was also fined £100 with £303.41 costs plus compensation for damage caused to a sabateur's car when he crushed it with his own vehicle.
• William Bolton, Paul Hawkes, and David Lynne supporters of the Tynedale FH all bound over to keep the peace for two years in the sum of £200 after a vicious and unprovoked attack on a Tyneside sab. Bolton also admitted a further charge of Criminal Damage for which he was fined £50 with £24.41 compensation.
• Roger Howarth, a whipper-in with the Linlithgow and Sterlingshire FH, found guilty of damaging a CB radio belonging to Edinburgh sabs. He was ordered to pay the group the pricely sum of £10 for a new one.
• Paul Willingale was sentence to 6 months in prison for a vicious attack on Eddie Coulson who was attending his first sab at the Waterloo cup hare coursing event. As a consequence Mr Coulson, who needed emergency surgery to remove bone splinters and a blood clot, suffered a fractured skull and is left afflicted by epileptic fits.
• Albrighton FH huntsman, Nigel Cox convicted of firearms offences and given a three year suspended prison sentence after he blew a hole in the radiator of an occupied sab minibus with a shotgun. He was also given a conditional discharge for Assault (he had struck one person with the gun) and Criminal Damage to a camera. No damages were paid to the sabs since the police 'forgot' to ask for them!
• South Dorset kennel-man Nicholas Stevens and two of his henchmen were bound over to keep the peace after an incident when three sabs were cornered in a field and attacked.
• Hunter Paul Connelly attacked a sab with a pickaxe handle beating him while he lay on the ground. Fined £500 for assault.

1981

1980

• A supporter of the Enfield Chase Fox Hounds George Adair convicted of Criminal Damage to a saboteurs' vehicle was ordered to pay £100 fine and £60 costs. On a charge of Assault the jury were unable to reach a decision so Judge Hickman decided for them, finding Adair not guilty despite the evidence of six sab witnesses, a detective constable, a sergeant, an inspector and a superintendent regarding his alleged violent behaviour. To cap it all off the judge ordered all the sabs to return the next week where he bound them all over to keep the peace for a year, refusing them permission to offer any defence! (Judge Hickman refused to comment on the nature of his own recreational pursuits!)
• Martin Philips' 'sympathies' towards the hunt were so inflamed by the sight of two Hunt Saboteurs Association (HAS) sweatshirts that he attacked the people inside them leaving one requiring stitches to his face. Philips was fined £325 and ordered to pay £25 to each of his victims, as well as £19 damages for breaking a pair of spectacles.

1979