Name - Mackay Andrew Warner (Chairman of local lurcher and terrier club)
Address - Butt Lane, Mansfield Woodhouse
Convicted - 23/1/89
Fine - £410 and £100 costs
Magistrates - Chesterfield
Age/D.O.B - 37
Also convicted - Alone
Notes - Found guilty of digging for badgers, cruelty to a terrier and not having a dog licence. Said he was after foxes. He also said he was the chairman of his local lurcher and terrier club.
Name - Mackay Martin
Address - Nash Road, Chadwell Heath
Convicted - 16/11/88
Fine - £300 and £20 costs
Magistrates - Rochford
Age/D.O.B - 30
Also convicted - Michael Dean and Alan Johnson
Notes - Claimed they were looking for foxes. Found guilty of attempting to kill, injure or take a badger. Dean and Johnson were also convicted of cruelty to their dogs, they were banned from keeping dogs for 5 years.
Name - Mackin Desmond Joseph (formally an official representative of the F & M.W.T.C.)
Address - Castle Lodge, Banbridge, County Down
Convicted - 6/10/97
Fine - 4 months
Magistrates - Darlington
Age/D.O.B - 43
Also convicted - Alone
Notes - A haulier was sentenced to four months in prison and banned from keeping any animal for five years after becoming the first man ever to be caught unlawfully transporting a live badger. (formally an official representative of the Fell and Moorland Working Terrier Club) pleaded guilty to charges of possession of a badger and ill-treating a badger at Darlington Magistrates court on 6/10/97. Mackin was arrested by Durham police after being stopped in his lorry on the A66 at Bowes Moor on 11/1/97. Police requested RSPCA assistance after discovering a live badger tied up in a sack in the back of the lorry. Mackin had travelled to County Durham from Northern Ireland. An inspector of the RSPCA's Special Operations Unit, who assisted Durham police, said: "This is an extremely important case. It confirms our suspicions that badgers are being dug out and transported elsewhere for baiting. The badger was found tied up and covered in mud in the middle of the loaded wagon and we believe it had been driven all the way from Northern Ireland to be baited over here". The badger was later found to be pregnant and after recovering from the ordeal gave birth to three cubs. After rehabilitation, the sow along with all the cubs were successfully released into the wild in the South of England.
Name - Maher Peter
Address - Grangeclare, Robenstown, County Kildare
Convicted - 25/4/97
Fine - See below
Magistrates - Trim District Court
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted - John Cassey and Patrick Mulligan
Notes - They all admitted interfering with the set of a badger and were described as "blackguards" by a judge at Trim District Court on 25/4/97. Eventually one of the men, Peter Maher was remanded in custody for a seven days. The court heard he had given a false name and address to a wildlife ranger who came across the men. The others were fined. Maher, along with John Casey (32) and Patrick Mulligan jnr (28) were charged with entering lands without the owner's permission on 25/2/96. Casey and Mulligan were told they must pay £100 witness expenses each in addition to fines of £150 and £100 respectively. The judge also disqualified Casey from driving for 12 months for using his car in connection with the offence. The three defendants also admitted interfering with/destroying the breeding place of a protected wild animal and carrying a spade and shovel capable of being used for the hunting of a wild bird or animal. The judge said they had dug 1.3 meters deep into the badger set and "are blackguards". The badger is a protected animal, this is a well-known set in the area and they deliberately had two dogs and another dog in the boot. If a badger catches you he won't let go. It is his only defence. It is disgusting." He remanded Maher in custody for one week to appear again in Trim District Court at a later date. Recognisance was set in the event of an appeal.
Name - Malham Carl
Address - Esk Grove, Hartlepool
Convicted - 8/3/88
Fine - £300 and £20 costs
Magistrates - Teesside
Age/D.O.B - 25
Also convicted - Ian Mckinley, Gary Wilson and John Connor
Notes - All were found guilty of digging for badgers
Name - Mallet Alan
Address - Bryn Tirion Hill, Bridgend
Convicted - 88/89
Fine - £500 and £500 costs
Magistrates - Carmarthen
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted - Philip Williams
Notes - Confirmed his involvement with Ledbury Foxhounds, also named four other fox hunts he had followed. Also another conviction for badger digging.
Name - Mallet Alan
Address - Bryn Triron Hill, Bridgend
Convicted - 21/6/89
Fine - £750 and £650 costs
Magistrates - Gloucester
Age/D.O.B - 24
Also convicted - Philip Williams
Notes - Caught 27/11/88. Both found guilty of digging for a badger, ill-treating a badger and trying to take a badger. Infiltrated by an undercover investigator. This is their second offence for badger digging
Name - Mannix Dennis Luke
Address - 24 Eden Court, Lillington, Leamington Spa
In court - 5/12/90
Found Not guilty
Magistrates - Leamington
Age/D.O.B - 23
Also charged - Simon Eaton and Jason Rheams
Notes - Caught 8/2/90.
Name - Marney Wayne
Address - Hilton Road, Canvey Island
In court - 18/3/88
Found Not guilty
Magistrates - Brentwood
Age/D.O.B - 28
Also charged - Steven Peck and Gary Brewster
Notes - Caught 12/86. Found not guilty of digging for badgers. Mr Barry Gilbert defended all three.
Name - Marriot David Robert
Address - Armstrong Road, Mansfield
Convicted - 20/11/85
Fine - £300 and £40 costs
Magistrates - Mansfield
Age/D.O.B - 20
Also convicted - Stephen Raymont, David Reast and Stephen Marriot
Notes - All found guilty of attempting to take a badger, digging for a badger and ill-treating a badger. David Reast found guilty of attempting to take a badger and ill-treating a badger.
Name - Marriot Stephen Paul
Address - Armstrong Road, Mansfield
Convicted - 20/11/85
Fine - £300 and £40 costs
Magistrates - Mansfield
Age/D.O.B - 20
Also convicted - David Marriot, Stephen Raymont and David Reast
Notes - All found guilty of attempting to take a badger, digging for a badger and ill-treating a badger. David Reast found guilty of attempting to take a badger and ill-treating a badger.
Name - Marum Michael
Address - Chapel Street, Ballanakill, County Laois
Convicted - Autumn 1994
Fine - 6 months suspended sentence and £1000 costs
Magistrates - ?
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted - Michael Carroll, John Conroy, Tom Conolly and Tom Parr
Notes - 18 charges of cruelty to animals. All brought to court after Channel 4 undercover programme on badger digging holidays in Eire.
Name - Marshall Philip (Gamekeeper for East Dean Park)
Address - Flat 14, Tatchells Forest Road, Midhurst
Convicted - 19/1/94
Fine - 3 months
Magistrates - Worthing
Age/D.O.B - 1/1/53
Also convicted - Rodney Dibble and Stephen Hickson
Notes - Found guilty of digging for badgers and willfully killing a female and male badger.
Name - Massey Robert John
Address - Westleigh, Southmead, Bristol
Convicted - Autumn 1994
Fine - £240
Magistrates - ?
Age/D.O.B - 23
Also convicted - Steven Farley, Lee Nash, 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 - Maxwell Stephen
Address - Kingsland Crescent, Norris Green, Liverpool
Convicted - 4/3/92
Fine - £300 and £42 costs
Magistrates - Crewe
Age/D.O.B - 30
Also convicted - Carl Morgan
Notes - Found guilty of digging for badgers. Caught 28/8/91
Name - Maxwell Stephen
Address - 26 Hazelbeech Crescent, Liverpool
Convicted - October 1992
Fine - 3 months suspended for 2 years and £109 costs
Magistrates - Market Drayton
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted - Anthony Culley, Carl Morgan and Stephen Fox
Notes - Caught November 1991. All found guilty of digging for badgers. Maxwell, Morgan and Culley all have convictions for other badger offences.
Name - Maxwell Stephen
Address - 26 Hazelbeech Crescent/ Kingland Crescent, Norris Green, Liverpool
Convicted - 4/12/93
Fine - 6 months and implemented a 3 months sentence from an offence at Market Drayton.
Magistrates - Mold
Age/D.O.B - 32
Also convicted - Anthony Culley and Colin Buoey
Notes - Caught 17/1/93. Found guilty of attempting to take a badger and interfering with a badger sett. They said they were digging for foxes. Maxwell and Culley have previous convictions for badger offences. Maxwell was also banned from owning a dog for the next 5 years.
Name - May Kevin
Address - Frank Webb Avenue, Crewe
Convicted - 3/2/88
Fine - £200 and £20 costs
Magistrates - Crewe
Age/D.O.B - 18
Also convicted - Wayne Oliver
Notes - They were both found guilty of digging for badgers. Both defended by Mr David Sayer. A 14 year old youth was also found guilty of digging for badgers, and will be sentenced at a later date. They all said they were after foxes.
Name - McColgan Peter James (Amateur Huntsman of Cumberland Farmers Foxhounds)
Address - The Kennels, Welton, Dalston
Convicted - 9/8/96
Fine - £150 and £250 costs
Magistrates - Penrith
Age/D.O.B - 30
Also convicted - Edwin Dickinson
Notes - McColgan was guilty of aiding and abetting Dickinson in interfering with a badger sett by causing a dog to enter the sett. Caught on 6/12/95 when the Cumberland Farmers were out hunting near Penrith when McColgan found that a fox had gone down a hole, he then called over Dickinson. Both men admitted in interviews that they had put a terrier down but said the contentious issue was whether they were signs of the sett being an active one. Both defended by Brian Mark Q.C. Both cleared at Carlisle Crown Court on 6/2/97
Name - McHardy William
Address - Dalry
Convicted - ?
Fine - £200
Magistrates - Kilmarnock
Age/D.O.B - 22
Also convicted - Alan Wallace, Stephen Campbell
Notes - All three claimed the dogs were only used for chasing rabbits
Name - McKenzie Hamish
Address - Shoreham-by-Sea
Convicted - 10/7/86
Fine - £500 and £40.75 costs
Magistrates - Bromley
Age/D.O.B - 30
Also convicted - Andrew Bryant
Notes - Caught mid Feb. 86. They said they were hunting rabbits. Rudi Fortson defended them. A third person unknown got away. They were found guilty of hunting for badgers, and a charge of digging for badgers was dismissed.
Name - McKinley Ian
Address - Earlston Walk, Hartlepool
Convicted - 8/3/88
Fine - £250 and £20 costs
Magistrates - Teesside
Age/D.O.B - 27
Also convicted - Gary Wilson, John Connor and Carl Malham
Notes - All were found guilty of digging for badgers.
Name - McKinna Duncan (Gamekeeper)
Address - Nursery Cottage, Sorn Estate
Convicted - 17/6/94
Fine - £500 see below
Magistrates - Ayr
Age/D.O.B - Aged 29
Also convicted - Alone
Notes - He was fined £150 for killing a badger and £350 for possession of a dead badger, which was found in his freezer
Name - McLaughlin Anthony
Address - Stevenage
In court - ?
Not guilty
Magistrates - Welwyn
Age/D.O.B -
Also charged - Mark Bird
Notes -There were both seen going into the woods with terriers and spades by a keen naturalist. But found not guilty because no badger hairs could be found on any of their equipment/terriers. After the court case they said they would still hunt foxes but with a proper hunt.
Name - McLeary William
Address - Greenthorpe Hill, Leeds
Convicted - 29/7/87
Fine - 2 months and £500 fine later reduced at appeal to 1 month and £100 fine
Magistrates - Driffield
Age/D.O.B - 34
Also convicted - Anthony Hooton, Andrew Talbot, Ian Myres and Andrew Mudd
Notes - Caught 30/12/86. McLeary appealed against three offences attempting to kill, injure or take a badger, one of digging for badgers and further offence of cruelly ill-treating his dog. Banned from keeping dogs for 4 years.
Name - McMullen Thomas
Address - 13 Station Road, Little Sutton, Ellesmere Port
Convicted - 9/9/87
Fine - £125 and £35 costs
Magistrates - Neston
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted - Ian Griffiths and Paul Hughes
Notes - All found guilty of digging for badgers and injuring badgers. There was also a 16 year old youth there who could not be named, may have been a fourth person also who actually killed the badger. The youth was fined £20 for digging and £30 for injuring the badger and £20 costs.
Name - McMullen Thomas
Address - 13 Station Road, Little Sutton, Ellesmere Port
Convicted - 10/10/87
Fine - £100 and £31.03 costs
Magistrates - Chester
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted - Paul Hughes, Keith Thomas, Kevin Walsh and Charles Fisher
Notes - All found guilty of digging for badgers
Name - McNally James
Address - Horn Drive, West Belfast
Convicted - Spring 1991
Fine - £120
Magistrates - Belfast
Age/D.O.B - Born 1964
Also convicted - Martin Owens, Sean Price and John Shannon
Notes - All found guilty of cruelty to a fox which they then bagged, before it was set upon by seven dogs. All banned from keeping dogs for 2 years.
Name - Melody Kevin Patrick
Address - ?
Convicted - 18/9/90
Fine - £400 and £140 costs
Magistrates - Crewe
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted - Graham Evans and Simon Camps
Notes -
Name - Mercer Thomas Edward
Address - The Bungalow, Cross Swords Farm, Boot Road, Chorley
First in court on 3/8/90, then 5/12/90.
Fine - ?
Magistrates - Telford
Age/D.O.B - 23
Also charged - David Bradshaw, Steven Fishwick
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.
Name - Mitchell Andrew Richard
Address - 71 Old Lane, Birkenshaw, Bradford
Convicted - 1986
Fine - £400 and £20 costs
Magistrates - Chesterfield
Age/D.O.B - 19
Also convicted - Darryl Aram and Andrew Mitchell
Notes - All found guilty of digging for badgers. Caught 6.00am August Bank Holiday Monday. They said they were looking for foxes.
Name - Moore Gary (Dartmoor Foxhounds supporter)
Address - Ippleton, Newton Abbot
Due in court Autumn 1992
Fine - ?
Magistrates - Tavistock
Age/D.O.B -
Also charged - Michael Weir, Jonathan Northmoor and Paul Williams
Notes - All charged with 2 offences of interfering with a badger sett.
Name - Morgan Brinley
Address - Plymouth Wood Close, Ely, Cardiff
Convicted - March 1985
Fine - ?
Magistrates - ?
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted -
Notes - Fined for keeping a badger
Name - Morgan Carl
Address - 51 Belmont Drive, Liverpool
Convicted - 4/3/92
Fine - £300 and £42 costs
Magistrates - Crewe
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted - Stephen Maxwell
Notes - Found guilty of digging for badgers. Caught 28/8/91
Name - Morgan Carl
Address - 51 Belmont Drive, Liverpool
Convicted - October 1992
Fine - 3 months suspended for 2 years and £109 costs
Magistrates - Market Drayton
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted - Anthony Culley, Stephen Maxwell and Stephen Fox.
Notes - Caught November 1991. All found guilty of digging for badgers. Maxwell, Morgan and Culley all have convictions for other badger offences.
Name - Morley Gary
Address - Garret Avenue, Ravensdale, Mansfield
In court 22/10/87
Not guilty (see below)
Magistrates - Nottingham
Age/D.O.B -19
Also charged - Andrew Holmes and Christopher Burgess
Notes - Caught 13/2/87. Found not guilty of digging for badgers. But they were found guilty of trespassing for rabbits without a licence and each fined £40. Holmes at the time of the court case was serving a sentence for assault. All three have pervious conviction for badger offences
Name - Morley Gary
Address - Middleton Court, Mansfield
Convicted - 27/1/88
Fine - £500 and £165 costs see below
Magistrates - Loughborough
Age/D.O.B - 20
Also convicted - Christopher Burgess and Andrew Holmes
Notes - All found guilty of attempting to take a badger and digging for a badger. £250 for each charge. They said they were after rabbits.
Name - Morley Gary
Address - Middleton Court, Mansfield
Convicted - 28/4/88
Fine - £600 and £120 costs
Magistrates - Newark
Age/D.O.B - 20
Also convicted - Neil Lowery, Andrew Holmes and Christopher Burgess
Notes - Holmes, Morley and Burgess have previous convictions for badger related offences. Found guilty of two offences of digging for badgers on 21/2/87 and 1/3/87. They said they were after foxes.
Name - Morley Gary
Address - Bull Farm, Mansfield
Convicted - 19/2/88
Fine - £700 and £30 costs
Magistrates - Chesterfield
Age/D.O.B - 20
Also convicted - Christopher Burgess and Keith Greasley
Notes - Morley and Burgess have previous convictions for badgers related offences. Burgess pleaded guilty to killing two badgers, keeping a dog without a licence and the theft of a dog in August 87. Morley pleaded guilty to killing two badgers, keeping two dogs without a licence and failing to surrender to bail. Greasley pleaded guilty to killing two badgers, keeping two dogs without a licence and three other motoring offences. Mr Peter Jones defended Burgess and Morley, Greasley was defended by Mr John Turner.
Name - Morris David
Address - Wood Street, Alfreton, Derby
Convicted - 15/5/84 and appealed 13/12/84
Fine - 2 year conditional discharge and £236 costs, and ordered to pay £100 costs at the appeal (2 year conditional discharge to stand)
Magistrates - Alfreton
Age/D.O.B - 22
Also convicted - Philip Harrison, Lewis Edwards, Kevin Baines and Paul Cartwright
Notes - All found guilty of attempting to injure or take a badger from a sett and digging for badgers. Caught July 1883. All defended by Mr John Winch, they all said they were looking for badgers.
Name - Morris Leslie
Address - Golf Link Cottages, Downley Common
Convicted - 15/7/98
Fine - £150 with £50 costs
Magistrates - High Wycombe
Age/D.O.B - 29
Also convicted -
Notes - Gamekeeper Leslie Morris of Golf Link Cottages, Downley Common, Buckinghamshire appeared in court charged with killing protected wild animals. Morris appeared before Wycombe magistrates on 24/10/97 and was remanded on bail until November 12. He faced a total of 16 charges: four of taking a badger; destroying a badger sett; handling a stolen Honda quad bike, (the property of Gold Star Trading); two breaches of firearms certificate regulations; killing three wild owls; setting snares to injure wild animals; using an illuminating device to assist in the killing of a badger; two cases of killing a sparrowhawk; using a Fenn trap for foxes in a non-approved way; taking an unknown number of badgers and of killing a buzzard. The charges relate to dates from January 1996 to August 1997 in the High Wycombe area. Leslie Morris was cleared of killing badgers, sparrowhawks and a buzzard on the Dashwood Estate in Buckinghamshire. High Wycombe magistrates heard on 15/7/98 how Morris a gamekeeper for the Bradenham Hill shooting syndicate had recorded his killings in a sportsman's journal. During the trial Jason Runciman, an underkeeper, told the court that Morris had admitted killing badgers and feeding live fox cubs to his dogs. Morris was fined £150 with £50 costs for keeping ammunition unsecured.
Name - Morrissey Thomas (Publican)
Address - Cassagh
In court - ?
His charges were dropped
Magistrates - New Ross
Age/D.O.B -
Also charged - Thomas Roachford and Tom Quinn
Notes - Both the others were found guilty of unlawfully killing a badger and two cubs. Caught 15/4/90.
Name - Mossop Raymond (Youth employment supervisor)
Address - Palmers Lane, Millom
Convicted - 30/1/83
Fine - £700
Magistrates - Millom
Age/D.O.B - 46
Also convicted - Stephen Mossop, Alan O'Brian, Michael Crelin and John Turner
Notes - Raymond Mossop held the badger up in the air while his son Stephen hit it with a spade. They were caught when they sent their film to Colourtrend to be developed. Found guilty of digging for badgers.
Name - Mossop Stephen
Address - Palmers Lane, Millom
Convicted - 30/1/83
Fine - £700
Magistrates - Millom
Age/D.O.B - 24
Also convicted - Raymond Mossop, Alan O'Brian, Michael Crelin and John Turner
Notes - Raymond Mossop held the badger up in the air while his son Stephen hit it with a spade. They were caught when they sent their film to Colourtrend to be developed. Found guilty of digging for badgers.
Name - Mountford Leslie James
Address - 132 Higher Green Lane, or Ashton/Ellesmere Street, Tyldesley
Convicted - 20/8/87 and appealed
Fine - £500 and £150 costs
Magistrates - Vale Royal and Knutsford Crown Court
Age/D.O.B - 22
Also convicted - Gerald Treanor, Anthony Concannon and Vernon Brown
Notes - They claimed they were hunting for rabbits. Found guilty of badger baiting. Judge Geoffery Kilfoil was at Knutsford Crown Court.
Name - Movat Stephen
Address - St Ambrose Court, Liverpool
In court 12/12/82
Not guilty
Magistrates - Wirral
Age/D.O.B - 25
Also charge - Peter Dobbs and Stephen Kendrick
Notes - All found not guilty of unlawfully attempting to take a badger. Caught August 1982. However a charge of causing £70 damage to Royden Park was proved and they were fined £35 each. They said they were hunting foxes and had killed over 400 in the last few years. Movat also has a conviction for other badger offences.
Name -Movat Steven
Address - Redromes, Bootle
Convicted - 28/8/87
Fine - £500 and £73 costs
Magistrates - Flint
Age/D.O.B - 29
Also convicted - Francis Guatella, Andrew Kelly and Robert Gilmore
Notes - They said they were after foxes. All found guilty of digging for a badgers
Name - Mudd Andrew George John
Address - Bodmin Place, Middleton, Leeds
Convicted - Did not appear in court with the others, due to appear 24/8/87 (no press clippings of the verdict)
Fine - ?
Magistrates - ?
Age/D.O.B - 19
Also convicted - Anthony Hooton, Andrew Talbot, Ian Myres and Ian Myres.
Notes - See Anthony Hooton.
Name - Mudd Andrew George John
Address - Bodmin Place, Middleton, Leeds
In court 29/7/87
Case adjourned
Magistrates - Driffield
Age/D.O.B - Born 1969
Also charged - Anthony Hooton, William McLeary, Andrew Talbot and Ian Myres.
Notes -
Name - Mullahy Andrew
Address - Bridgend Road, Measteg
Convicted - Spring 1995
Fine - ?
Magistrates - Tenby
Age/D.O.B - 25
Also convicted - John Hill, Brian James and Paul Brian
Notes - All pleaded guilty to digging for badgers.
Name - Mulligan Patrick
Address - Knockmore, Carbury, County Kildare
Convicted - 25/4/97
Fine - See below
Magistrates - Trim District Court
Age/D.O.B - 28
Also convicted - Peter Maher and John Casey
Notes - They all admitted interfering with the set of a badger and were described as "blackguards" by a judge at Trim District Court on 25/4/97. Eventually one of the men, Peter Maher was remanded in custody for a seven days. The court heard he had given a false name and address to a wildlife ranger who came across the men. The others were fined. Maher, along with John Casey (32) and Patrick Mulligan jnr (28) were charged with entering lands without the owner's permission on 25/2/96. Casey and Mulligan were told they must pay £100 witness expenses each in addition to fines of £150 and £100 respectively. The judge also disqualified Casey from driving for 12 months for using his car in connection with the offence. The three defendants also admitted interfering with/destroying the breeding place of a protected wild animal and carrying a spade and shovel capable of being used for the hunting of a wild bird or animal. The judge said they had dug 1.3 meters deep into the badger set and "are blackguards". The badger is a protected animal, this is a well-known set in the area and they deliberately had two dogs and another dog in the boot. If a badger catches you he won't let go. It is his only defence. It is disgusting." He remanded Maher in custody for one week to appear again in Trim District Court at a later date. Recognisance was set in the event of an appeal.
Name - Mullin William Richard
Address - Wythenshaw, Manchester
Convicted - 20/4/90
Fine - ?
Magistrates - Macclesfield
Age/D.O.B - 24/1/62
Also convicted - Vincent Walldock, David Lonston and Jonathan Crowther
Notes -
Name - Murray Keith
Address - Golden Grove, Roscrea, Co.Tipperary
Convicted - 25/5/01
Fine - £1000
Magistrates - Roscrea District Court, Co Tipperary
Age/D.O.B - 21
Also convicted - Donnacha Doyle
Notes - On 24/5/01 at Roscrea District Court Co Tipperary the judge adjourned sentencing in the case of two men convicted of badger baiting offences. Donnacha Doyle (19) of Benamore, Roscrea and Keith Murray (21) of Golden Grove, Roscrea Co.Tipperary will now face sentencing on the 26/5/01 at Roscrea District Court. They were both ordered to pay a total of £1,000 to be divided equally between Badger Watch Ireland and the ISPCA. They faced charges of interfering with a badger sett and baiting a badger with terriers. The court heard how a gang of four, two of whom were fourteen years of age, were seen walking away from a badger sett and it was noted that one of their terriers was bleeding and had a gash between its eyes and nose. There was evidence that the sett had been dug into and both defendants told the local rangers that they couldn't get down the full distance into it because of stones and rocks. They told the ranger that the terrier had attacked a badger in the sett. They were not able to provide the ranger with any excuse for their actions. However in court, their solicitor said that they were "hunting rabbits" and one of their dogs went into a hole. The judge said she couldn't believe the defendants' story and convicted them, saying "I have no doubt in my mind that they were badger baiting".
Name - Murray Martin
Address - Stockbridge Close, Greatfield Estate, Hull
Convicted - ?
Fine - £300 and £300 costs
Magistrates - Pocklington
Age/D.O.B - 27
Also convicted - Andrew Dalton and John Fairburn
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 - Murry Martin Edward
Address - Corcrain Gardens, Portadown
Convicted - 28/1/89
Fine - 6 months in a Young Offenders Centre and £50 fine
Magistrates - Craigavon
Age/D.O.B - 20
Also convicted - Jeffrey Duncan, Peter Gorman and Colin Duncan.
Notes - All four banned from having any animal for life. All found guilty of seven charges of causing unnecessary suffering to a badger and ill-treated three Staffordshire bull terriers, two Jack Russell's and a wire haired terrier. Mr Hugo Marley defended all four.
Name - Murray Paul
Address - 254 Maidstone Close, Ernesettle, Plymouth or Llewellyn Avenue, Cardiff
Convicted - 9/1/86
Fine - £300 and £200 costs
Magistrates - Taunton
Age/D.O.B - 27
Also convicted - Christopher Newton, Phillip Dann and Christopher Lewis
Notes - Newton was fined £500 because of a previous 8 convictions of badger digging in 1981, and was then fined £1,086. In his own written records seized by police showed that in 1981 alone he had killed 48 foxes, 11 badgers, 13 hares and 2 deer. He had killed 70 badgers altogether at the time of his arrest.
Name - Myres Ian Lawerence
Address - Helston Walk, Middleton, Leeds
Convicted - 29/7/87
Fine - £500 fine
Magistrates - Driffield
Age/D.O.B - Born 1963
Also convicted - Anthony Hooton, William McLeary, Andrew Talbot and Andrew Mudd
Notes -