North West Hunt Saboteurs AssociationName - Fairburn John
Address - Castleford Grove, Greatfield Estate, Hull
Convicted - ?
Fine - £300 and £300 costs
Magistrates - Pocklington
Age/D.O.B - 38
Also convicted - Andrew Dalton and Martin Murray
Notes - All found guilty of digging for badgers and attempting to kill a badger. They said they were looking for foxes. Dalton also has another conviction for cruelty to a dog 22/1/93.
Name - Farley Steven Michael
Address - Doncaster Road, Southmead, Bristol
Convicted - Autumn 1994
Fine - £240
Magistrates - ?
Age/D.O.B - 26
Also convicted - Lee Nash, Robert Massey, Julian Vokins and Barry Nicolas
Notes - All found guilty of interfering with a badger sett. They were caught by the RSPCA after a tip-off. All banned from keeping dogs for 2 years.
Name - Farquhar Captain Ian (Joint Master of Duke of Beaufort)
Address - Warren Cottage, Acton Turville, Badminton
Convicted - 3/9/93
Fine - 2 year conditional discharge and £4000 costs
Magistrates - North Avon
Age/D.O.B - Aged 46
Also convicted - Alone
Notes - Found guilty of interfering with badger setts.
Name - Farthing Alan George
Address - Pen-y-Dre, Swansea Valley
In court 23/7/86
Not guilty
Magistrates - Ammanford
Age/D.O.B - 20
Also charged - Mark Nettle and Neville Davies
Notes - Nettle and Farthing also cleared of dog fighting
Name - Faulkner Anthony
Address - 64 Eagle House, Haedlam Street, London E1
Convicted - June 1984
Fine - £250 and £140.60 costs
Magistrates - Brentwood
Age/D.O.B - Aged 24
Also convicted - Raymond and Brian Ali
Notes - All found guilty of attempting to take a badger
Name - Fell Simon Andrew
Address - Greenbrown Road, Newall Green, Wythenshaw, Manchester
Convicted - 14/8/87
Fine - £425 and £25 costs for badger offence and £50 for being unlawfully in possession of a rabbit and equipment used to catch game
Magistrates - Wilmslow
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted - Alone
Notes - Found guilty of willfully attempting to kill, take or injure a badger and unlawful digging for a badger. Caught 8/2/87.
Name - Fellows Stuart Anthony
Address - Pond Lane, Parkfields, Wolverhampton
Convicted - 10/7/96 then sentenced on 13/8/96
Fine - 2 months for interfering with a badger sett, 4 months for assault and 1 month for stealing a camera. (All to run concurrently)
Magistrates - Oswestry
Age/D.O.B - 28
Also convicted - William Richards and Stephen Rogers
Notes - All found guilty of damaging a badger sett, Fellows also admitted assaulting Mr Bone and theft of his camera, they were caught 29/8/95. A local resident (Mr Bone) heard barking and went to see what was going on. On arrival at the badger sett he saw the three men digging, they told him it was a rabbit warren and they were digging for foxes. Mr Bone then started taking pictures of the three, Fellows then chased Mr Bone across the field and at one point hit Mr Bone across the back with a shovel. During a search of Fellows house in October 1995 the RSPCA found a stuffed badger and three wildlife traps. Fellows was defended by John Lishman, David McQueen defended Rogers and Richard Lloyd defended Richards. They were all banned from keeping dogs for 10 years. Following an appeal at Shrewsbury Crown Court on 14/9/96, his ban on dogs was lowered to 3 years.
Name - Fenwick Andrew (butcher)
Address - Modd Lane, Holmfirth, Huddersfield
Convicted - 12/5/85
Fine - £200 and £67 costs
Magistrates - Chesterfield
Age/D.O.B - 23
Also convicted - alone
Notes - Found guilty of attempting to dig for badgers.
Name - Finnerty Kevin
Address - Lupset
Convicted - Winter 1992
Fine - £300
Magistrates - Huddersfield
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted - Richard and Neil Thompson
Notes - All found guilty of digging for badgers. They said they were after foxes. All were cleared of attempting to kill, injure or take a badger.
Name - Fielding Andrew
Address - 155 Wingate Towers, Knowsley, Liverpool
Convicted - 24/6/88
Fine - £100 and £25 costs
Magistrates - Wirral
Age/D.O.B - 27
Also convicted - Christopher Till
Notes - They put a terrier down a fox earth, and also denied 6 other by-law offences. Both have other convictions for badger offences.
Name - Fielding Anthony Andrew
Address - Huyton, Liverpool
Convicted - 27/11/89
Fine - £250 and £75 costs
Magistrates - Berwyn
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted - Malcolm Hopwood, Kevin Roberts and Christopher Till
Notes - All convicted of attempting to take a badger. Defending Julian Linskill said they were only after foxes. Hopwood had an appeal at Mold Crown Court and lost. He was ordered to pay the costs of £410. He also judges terriers at shows.
Name - Fisher Charles Leighton
Address - 7 Chetwood Avenue, Crosby
Convicted - ?
Fine - £100 and £31.03 costs
Magistrates - Chester
Age/D.O.B - 21
Also convicted - Keith Thomas, McMullen, Kevin Walsh and Paul Hughes
Notes - All found guilty of digging for badgers
Name - Fishwick Stephen
Address - 23 Derwent Road, Chorley
Convicted - 27/1/90 then appealed and cleared 21/6/90
Fine - £500 and £100 costs all later quashed at appeal
Magistrates - Market Drayton
Age/D.O.B - 33
Also convicted - Gordon Grimshaw, David Travis, Paul Blackledge and Sean Nightingale
Notes -
Name - Fishwick Stephen
Address - 32 Derwent Road, Chorley
Convicted - First in court 3/8/90, then 6/11/90, convicted 5/12/90.
Fine - £500 later to be quashed
Magistrates - Telford
Age/D.O.B - 33
Also convicted - Thomas Mercer, David Bradshaw
Notes - Charged with attempting to dig for a badger, digging for a badger and ill-treating a badger. Mercer also faces four charges of aiding and abetting Bradshaw and Fishwick to commit cruelty offences. Wife is called Carol. One night they had all their windows smashed and a pickaxe handle thrown through the window.
Name - Florkowskie Paul George
Address - Tarbet Road, Moorland, Lancaster
In court 12/2/94, due back for trial 21/22 April 1994
Fine - ?
Magistrates - Appleby
Age/D.O.B - 28
Also charged - Jason Parker and Robert Clark
Notes - Caught 8/12/93. All charged with interference with a badger sett.
Name - Ford John Cyril
Address - 16 Chapel Lane, Ratby, Leicester
Convicted - 9/3/90
Fine - £1000 and £141 costs (£400 for attempting to take a badger, £400 for digging for a badger and £200 for cruelty to a terrier used in the incident.)
Magistrates - Market Bosworth
Age/D.O.B - 40
Also convicted - Alister Pick, Neil Chappell and Mark Sloan Notes - They had 44 years digging experience between them.
Name - Fowell Stephen
Address - Whitfield Street, Tranmere
Convicted - 27/7/02
Fine - six week in jail
Magistrates - Wallasey
Age/D.O.B - 30
Also convicted - Stephen Baker, Stephen Butler and Stephen Fowell
Notes - Three men accused of hunting badgers with dogs lied under oath in a tale concocted to protect themselves Wallasey magistrates heard on 12/7/02. Stephen Baker (38) of Overpool Road, Ellesmere Port, Stephen Butler (30) of Cedar Gardens, Queensferry and Stephen Fowell (30) of Whitfield Street, Tranmere are accused of badger digging on farmland in Pensby. Prosecutors alleged they fled the scene when officers approached, leaving a dog trapped underground in a badger sett. The trio deny the charges, saying they ran away because they knew they were trespassing. They admitted trespassing on the land up to three times to rescue the dog. The prosecution old the court how the three men, who are not members of recognised terrier clubs, failed to take warnings about possible badger activity on the site. "To hunt on a piece of land, you must obey rules. "You firstly must obtain written permission to hunt, be a member of a working terrier club, be able to identify badger sites on the land and give reliable evidence of your name and address, if stopped by the police. "What you are telling the court today is nonsense because you were there to try to get a badger." The men claimed that they had been interested in visiting the land to hunt for rats, rabbits and a fox. Baker told the court how he had been familiar with the area of land and had been intrigued by fox holes he had found on a previous visit. "I went to the land because there was a nice fox earth there. I could tell by the size of the hole and it stank of fox," he said. "I checked the hole first and then the dog went down it "I am more interested in foxes and rats than badgers. I am not a badger baiter and have even worked with Clwyd Badger Group." Baker then told how he was forced to dig the hole when he found that the terrier was missing. He said: "I tried using my locator and put my arm in to the hole. I was a few inches away, it was so frustrating. I then decided to dig the dog out." The dog was recovered three hours later by officers in a hole on the other side of the field. No signs of fox activity were found at the location. The men were remanded on unconditional bail. On 15/7/02 and witness called The Reverend and Worshipful Professor Doctor Barry Peachey ( dressed as a priest in a bid to appear more creditable) was called as a defence witness. On 27/7/02 Stephen Baker, Stephen Butler and Stephen Fowell were found guilty of badger digging. All three men had pleaded not guilty to the charges.
On 20/8/02 Stephen Baker (38) of Overpool Road, Ellesmere Port, Stephen Butler (30) of Cedar Gardens, Queensferry, and Stephen Fowell (30) of Whitfield Street, Tranmere were found guilty of badger digging and of interfering with a badger sett, they were also sentenced to six weeks to run concurrently. The judge also banned the trio from owning a dog for three years.
Name - Fox Michael
Address - Scarisbrick Crescent, Liverpool
Convicted - October 1992
Fine - 3 months suspended for 2 years
Magistrates - Market Drayton
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted - Anthony Culley, Carl Morgan and Stephen Maxwell
Notes - Caught November 1991. All found guilty of digging for badgers. Maxwell, Morgan and Culley all have convictions for other badger offences.
Name - Frankish Graham (Gamekeeper)
Address - Ryde Farm Estate, near Guildford
Convicted - 28/1/93
Fine - £1,000 and £1,000 costs
Magistrates - Guildford
Age/D.O.B - 30
Also convicted - Alone
Notes - Frankish is the head gamekeeper on an estate rented by Lord Forte. He was convicted of possessing a dead badger which was found in his freezer with a snare around its neck. The badger was found following a search by the RSPCA. He was cleared of possessing part of a badger cub, part of a tawny owl and part of a barn owl.
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