22/05/2025
There have been a few times in my life, which has been dedicated to public service aa a child protection professional, though a lot of my personal life has been dedicated to trying to save animals in the wild, when I have been truly shocked by something I've read.
I've read some shocking things during that time but the telegraph article where the Royal Artillery foxhounds bleat on about not being allowed to conduct their illegal sport unfettered is gobsmacking in terms of complete fabrications and untruths and the staggering arrogance of an organised criminal gang, quite literally claiming it's unfair that the police don't act as their personal security Force to enable them to conduct criminal activities. Smell the coffee!
If if it hadn't been printed in a paper that pretends to be reasonable then I suppose to someone who didn't know the facts it might seem as this this poor criminal gang were being unduly pursued for attempting to kill foxes illegally which they barely deny in the article, but if you come and see them any Saturday or any Wednesday during the hunting season wherever they're hunting you will see them hunting foxes blatantly obviously hunting.
There is no doubt that this Hunt has received the particular attention of a couple of dedicated groups of hunts saboteurs and hunt monitors but then they ARE hunting illegally. Wouldn't we expect and hope that decent law abiding members of the public would seek to protect wildlife from organised criminal gangs conducting an illegal activity twice a week? At least somebody's prepared to do something about it!!
It is true that the hunt staff and Huntsman of the Royal Artillery have spent a significant amount of time in police stations but apart from two fallacious reports that we're aware of the rest of the time it has been because they're under arrest....on the wrong side of the law. We can put up and post many videos of, for instance, Charles Carter (huntman) attacking a female Saboteur with his whip Riding at her whipping her until one of the other joint Masters actually moved her horse in the way to protect the hunt sab from Carter who had clearly lost his rag. There's an occasion, we can show you the videos, of where Charles Carter drives his car at a hunt saboteur, purposesly hitting him and knocking him over.
I myself have personally experienced his anger as when I quite legally distract his hounds he immediately rides at full pelt on his horse in an attempt to seriously injure me.
The police have also spoken to him and issued him with a community protection notice for vandalizing a monitors car. There have been many other occasions when this Hunt has broken the law, they regularly chase deer and hare which are not their desired quarry but they do so anyway and and they regularly lose control of their hoinds but they also, always Hunt foxes. That is illegal..... it seems to be an extremely hard fact for the privileged like James Harris to take on board, he wishes to carry on his illegal activity unfettered and it must be distressing to him that activists turn up every Saturday and often on a Wednesday as well to record his illegal activity in hunting wildlife which I assume he may be aware was banned 20 years ago.
To be fair to Mr Harris I haven't particularly noted him being violent towards hunt Saboteurs although he is in serious danger of boring people to death with his constant shouting, but the majority of the rest of their claims are simply untrue.
If they had happened I very much doubt the police would have ignored them, the only two-tier protocol we're aware of is when the Warwickshire police force decided to have a private deal with the Warwickshire Hunt. This is well documented and the Chief Constable (Teds) had to resign as a result of it.
The police in our area have simply told us not to bother them unless something serious is going on and while we do report them illegal hunting we don't expect the Police to show up as they are busy, but of course foxhunters are traditionally used to having police forces act as their personal security Force this has more to do with their sense of entitlement than any realities of the justice in the system if the system was truly just they they would be arrested every time they left kennels with a full pack of hounds and stopped from continuing their illegal activity twice a week. As it is enforcing the law remains down to activists as hunts all over the country often refuse to abide with the law and continue trying to kill wildlife with no apparent respect for the rule of law or those that try to uphold it.
The reason there hasn't been a single prosecution of a hunt saboteur or the other anti-hunt activists who record the activities of the Royal Artillery foxhounds and intervene when they are hunting illegally is because there has never been a case to answer. The Huntsman himself has been arrested on numerous occasions for his foul behaviour. Are people seriously expected to believe that if any of his jackanory fantasies were real, that the police would have ignored it? An absurd insult to hard working and hard pressed officers. Shame on you James Harris, and the telegraph for putting this simpering nonsense in print without any fact checking. We're here, we'd have happily demystified you.
Trail hunting is a smokescreen and they know it and don't even pretend to follow a trail.
We have videos of them illegally hunting, attacking anti hunt activists, and treating the countryside like their personal, bloody, playground.
Maybe Mr Harris should get a real job and understand the real world, might put the dampers on his arrogant attitude towards the law and those who uphold it.
Saying they are assaulted by anti hunt activists is a blatant lie and I challenge anyone who believes it to come and see for themselves on a Saturday. What is correct is that Hunt Saboteurs will intervene to disrupt and record their illegal, immoral and unconsciable activities. That is right. If they had any respect for the law, they'd stop breaking it. Until they abide by the law, they can expect us. They are clearly asking the police to protect them as they commit crime. It's ridiculous and shame on the ToryGraff for printing these lies. There's only one side with "twisted morality" here, the ones who spend their days, illegally hunting and killing what's left of our wildlife, for their twisted sense of fun.
Feel free to contact us if you want the truth. SPHS
