Badger Baiters - T
Name - Tailby Wayne
Address - 16 Roecar Close, Old Whittington, Chesterfield
Convicted - 13/11/87
Fine - £100 and £20 costs see below
Magistrates - Renishaw
Age/D.O.B - 22
Also convicted - Mark Holtom and Robert Thompson
Notes - All three had badger digging charges dropped. They said they were after rabbits. Tailby pleaded guilty to abandoning a dog and not having a dog licence. Holtom pleaded guilty to not having a dog licence, driving without supervision and failing to sign his licence. Mr Bertie Mather defended Tailby and Thompson.
Name - Talbot Andrew
Address - Thirlmere Drive, Tingly, Wakefield
Convicted - 29/7/87
Fine - 2 months and £500 fine
Magistrates - Driffield
Age/D.O.B - Born 1966
Also convicted - Anthony Hooton, William McLeary, Ian Myres and Andrew Mudd
Notes - Banned from keeping animals for 4 years.
Name - Taplin Steven
Address - Kilburn Street, Liverpool
Convicted - 14/11/97
Fine - 200 hours community service and £200 costs
Magistrates - Stockport
Age/D.O.B - 28
Also convicted - Paul Archer and Stanley Young
Notes - They were all found guilty on 14/11/97 of interfering with a badger sett and causing unnecessary suffering to a fox. Young was also found guilty of cruelty to his terrier. Stockport magistrates heard over four days how the three were spotted by a woman walking her dog. In court a vet told how he had examined a fox that was found at the scene. It was still warm, had 'pretty horrendous injuries' and had bled to death. The court also heard how a greyhound and two terriers were injured, and one of the terriers had such serious injuries that it required three operations to repair the damage to the lower jaw. The three said in court how they had travelled to Stockport to hunt foxes because there were none in Merseyside (yeah right!!!). Taplin also told the court that they would not have dug at the sett if they believed badgers were inside. He also disagreed that the fox had been savaged by the dogs. "What do you think they did? Give it a kiss?" asked the prosecution. Taplin also stated it was a duty to kill foxes "because they are vermin". All three were sentenced to over 200 hours community service and ordered to pay £200 costs each. Young also had to forfeit his terrier and was banned from keeping dogs for two years.
Name - Taylor Harry
Address - Blackmoor Mead, Blackmoor, Brentwood
In court 18/3/88
Not guilty
Magistrates - Brentwood
Age/D.O.B - Born 1957
Also charged - Tony Purden and Duane Smith
Notes -
Name - Taylor Michael ( Ex rep. for F. & M.W.T.C. Essex branch 1991/2 ED-RD 10)
Address - Buckstead Road, Colchester
Convicted - 5/5/93
Fine - 3 months
Magistrates - Colchester
Age/D.O.B - 40
Also convicted - Anthony Delaney
Notes - Caught 17/5/92. Both admitted interfering with a badger sett. Banned from keeping dogs for 3 years.
Name - Tempest Mark
Address - 27 West Avenue, Golbourne, Wigan
Convicted - 6/8/87
Fine - £200 and £25 costs
Magistrates - Macclesfield
Age/D.O.B - 22
Also convicted - John Billington, Peter Noon, Thomas Cunliffe and David Boffey
Notes - All found guilty of attempting to take a badger and digging for badgers. They were fined £100 on each charge. Defended by Mr Richard Heap.
Name - Templeton Mark
Address - Gordon Square, Whitley Bay
Convicted - 16/11/95
Fine - 12 months conditional discharge and £100 costs
Magistrates - South East Northumberland
Age/D.O.B - 26
Also convicted - Spencer Burgo and Mark Graham
Notes - All pleaded guilty to interfering with a badger sett, they were caught 25/10/94. A local farmer became suspicious when he noticed four men on a railway embankment, as he knew there was a badger sett. The police were called and they were watched for a few minutes, then four men started walking towards them carrying a pole or stick. They also had a lurcher and two terriers. All defended by Tony Malia, he said Burgo was keen on hunting foxes and rabbits.
Name - Thomas Andrew Robert
Address - Thomas Street, Penygraig
Convicted - 31/1/85
Fine - £250 and costs
Magistrates - Haverford
Age/D.O.B - 19
Also convicted - Stephen Palterman, Jeffrey Nash, David Bartlett and Jeffrey Leyshon
Notes - They said they were after foxes. Caught July 84. Found guilty of causing suffering to five dogs by keeping them confined in a boot of a car, cruelly ill-treating a badger and procuring or aiding and abetting two dogs to fight. All were defended by Mr Wyn Rees.
Name - Thomas David
Address - Larkspur Close, Lache, Chester
Convicted - 8/6/95
Fine - 3 months
Magistrates - Chester
Age/D.O.B - 25
Also convicted - Mark Lea
Notes - Found guilty of attempting to take a badger and digging for a badger. Peter Mort defending. Video taken of a badger being baited.
Name - Thomas David William
Address - Old Tan y Banc, Penrhynndeudraeth
Acquitted - 27/2/01
Fine -
Magistrates - Dolgellau
Age/D.O.B - 36
Also charged - Tony Edwards, Gerrard Gary Daniel Stanley, John Garreth Griffiths, Donald Keith Edwards and William Evans
Notes - On 27/2/02 Dolgellau magistrates heard
about six men who were found allegedly digging a badgers' sett in
a wood. They were accompanied
by a dozen dogs. The men told police they were digging for a fox which
had gone to ground. They denied all charges. The court heard that two
dogs were seen trying to get into a tunnel at the bottom of the hole
and a squealing noise could be heard. When one of the dogs, a terrier,
was pulled out of the tunnel it was heavily bloodstained and had badger
hairs in its mouth. The six were: Tony Edwards (27) of Grimshaw Lane,
Ormskirk; Gerrard Gary Daniel Stanley (38) of Cloucas Gardens, Ormskirk;
John Garreth Griffiths (34) of Ty'n Llwyd Terrace, Trawsfynydd; Donald
Keith Edwards (44) of Cysgod y Coleg, Bala; David William Thomas (36)
of Old Tan y Banc, Penrhynndeudraeth; and William Evans (40) of Pengwndwn,
Blaenau Ffestiniog. Tony Edwards was also found not guilty of an additional
charge of causing unnecessary cruelty to his Lakeland terrier. Donald
Keith Edwards said he had seen a fox enter one of the holes in the
area. All six told the court they were hunting for foxes and denied
they had visited the site to dig for badgers. David Thomas, who farms
at his mother's farm at Blaenau Ffestiniog, told the court: "I've
got no interest in digging for badgers. "Why should I go all the
way to Llanfrothen when I've got badgers on my own farm?" William
Evans said outside court: "I'm glad it's over and our names have
now been cleared. "The boys hunt every week and have been doing
it for 20 years and we want to carry on hunting."
Name - Thomas John Geraint Owen (Terrierman with the Vale of Clettwr)
Address - Gwarbistgwynwydd, Maesycrugiau
In court - 14/4/00
Not guilty
Magistrates - Lampeter
Age/D.O.B - 48
Also charged - David Lyn Lloyd, Gethin Jones and John Gareth Jones
Notes - The master and three other members of the Vale of Clettwr Hunt have been cleared of interfering with a badger sett by destroying it. Hunt master David Lyn Lloyd, John Geraint Owen Thomas, Gethin Jones and John Gareth Jones had encroached without permission on to forestry land. Gethin Jones who said he had 30 years' experience as terrierman, dismissed a prosecution suggestion that he had disturbed an active badger's sett and said he had walked around the area and had not seen any signs of setts. John Geraint Thomas said, "I have been a terrierman for over 30 years and there is no doubt in my mind that this was not a badger's sett. I know there are active setts in the area but we couldn't see these from where we were."
Name - Thomas Keith
Address - 178 Kings Heath Avenue, Liverpool
Convicted - ?
Fine - £100 and £31.03
Magistrates - Chester
Age/D.O.B - 23
Also convicted - Kevin Walsh, Charles Fisher and Paul Hughes
Notes - All found guilty of digging for badgers
Name - Thomas Martin
Address - Bellhagg Road, Walkley
Convicted - 1/10/93
Fine - £1,250
Magistrates - Sheffield
Age/D.O.B - 21
Also convicted - Daniel Anson
Notes - Found guilty of obstructing a badger sett. Anson was cleared of assaulting a policeman. They said they were looking for foxes.
Name - Thompson Andrew also known as Paul McMenamin
Address - Bishopton Road, Middlesborough
Due in court 26/11/92
Fine - ?
Magistrates - Richmond
Age/D.O.B -
Also charged - Peter Robson and Malcolm Gray
Notes - Caught in January 1992. All are charged with attempting to kill, injure or take a badger, digging for badgers, interfering with a badger sett, causing damage to a badger sett and sending a dog down a badger sett.
Name - Thompson Andrew Paul
Address - Maple Grove, Conisbrough
Convicted - 23/9/87 and appealed 17/3/88
Fine - £100 and £50 costs and £123 costs at the appeal
Magistrates - Thorne
Age/D.O.B - 23
Also convicted - Paul Scott
Notes - Found guilty of attempting to kill, injure or take a badger. Cleared of digging for badgers. They said they were after foxes, Paul Scott said he was an experienced fox hunter in the Yorkshire Dales and Lake District. Spotted by an infa-red camera at the nearby power station.
Name - Thompson Neil
Address - Horbury
Convicted - Winter 1992
Fine - £300
Magistrates - Huddersfield
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted - Richard Thompson and Neil Finnerty
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 - Thompson Richard
Address - Lupset, Wakefield
Convicted - 16/10/91, Appeal 28/1/92
Fine - £300 plus £200 costs of the appeal
Magistrates - Huddersfield Magistrates then Wakefield Crown Court
Age/D.O.B - 19
Also convicted - Neil Thompson and Kevin Finnerty
Notes - All three were convicted of digging for badgers, they all claimed they were digging for foxes and had no idea that badgers were in the area. They were all seen digging into a drainage site by a police officer who has 30 years experience in badger watching. When the RSPCA and members of a local badger group attended the sett, they found easily recognisable evidence that badgers were in the area.
Name - Thompson Robert Anthony
Address - 25 Station Road, Old Whittington, Chesterfield
Convicted - 13/11/87
Fine - £40 and £20 costs
Magistrates - Renishaw
Age/D.O.B - 22
Also convicted - Wayne Tailby and Mark Holtom
Notes - All three had badger digging charges dropped. They said they were after rabbits. Tailby pleaded guilty to abandoning a dog and not having a dog licence. Holtom pleaded guilty to not having a dog licence, driving without supervision and failing to sign his licence. Mr Bertie Mather defended Tailby and Thompson.
Name - Thorpe Paul
Address - Wickers Road, High Green, Sheffield
Convicted - 10/12/90
Fine - £150 and £100 costs
Magistrates - Sheffield
Age/D.O.B - Born 1968
Also convicted - Richard Estranger
Notes -
Name - Till Christopher
Address - 162 Stockbridge Lane, Knowsley, Liverpool
Convicted - 24/6/88
Fine - £100 and £25 costs
Magistrates - Wirral
Age/D.O.B - 19
Also convicted - Andrew Fielding
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 -Till Christopher
Address - 162 Stockbridge Lane, Knowsley
Convicted - 27/11/89
Fine - £250 and £75 costs
Magistrates - Berwyn
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted - Anthony Fielding, Kevin Roberts and Malcolm Hopwood
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 - Tomkins Melvyn
Address - Drake Avenue, Dines Green, Worcester
Convicted - 4/3/88
Fine - £200 and £40 costs
Magistrates - Worcester
Age/D.O.B - 22
Also convicted - Michael James, Adrian Yeomans and Steven George
Notes - Caught 29/7/87. All found guilty of trying to take a badger. Mr Joe Kieran defended all four.
Name - Tomlin James
Address - 707 Great Cambridge Road, Enfield
Convicted - 2/6/87
Fine - £200 and £20 costs
Magistrates - Epping
Age/D.O.B - 25/12/67
Also convicted - Sean Kingham and Jason Broderick
Notes - Caught 7/2/87. Found guilty of attempting to kill, injure or take a badger. Anthony Beaumont of 14 Ramney Drive, Enfield Lock was discharged, being 15 years old, it appears he was unaware of what was going on.
Name - Travers Paul
Address - 158 Malpas Road, Newport
Convicted - June 1986
Fine - ?
Magistrates - Warminster
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted - Alone
Notes - He had a freezer full of bodies including a badgers head
Name - Travis David (Member of Lancashire Terrier Club as rep. Lancashire Evening Post 13/1/90)
Address - Winwood Street, Leigh
Convicted - 27/1/90
Fine - £500 and £100 costs
Magistrates - Market Drayton
Age/D.O.B - 26
Also convicted - Steven Fishwick, Gordon Grimshaw, Paul Blackledge and Sean Nightingale
Notes - Found guilty of attempting to dig a badger and digging a badger, also causing unnecessary suffering to dogs. Banned from keeping dogs for 10 years. All the terriers had skin infections. The day after the incident the farmer Mr William Towers said 3 men asked him to sign a piece of paper saying he gave them permission to dig on his land.
Name - Treanor Gerald Paul (gym owner)
Address - 47 Everest Road, or Carrbank Street Atherton
Convicted - 20/8/87 and appealed
Fine - £500 and £150 costs and fine reduced to £250
Magistrates - Vale Royal and Knutsford Crown Court
Age/D.O.B - 32
Also convicted - Leslie Mountford, 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 - Trevor Brice
Address - Russway Farm, Westport
Convicted - 14/10/92
Fine - £120 (see below) and £60 costs
Magistrates - Taunton Deane
Age/D.O.B - 32
Also convicted - Norman Miller
Notes - Found guilty of causing damage to a badger sett, interfering with a badger sett. (£60 for each offence). Thomas Brice employed Miller to do some improvements on his land with an earth digger, and exposed the sett when digging with this.
Name - Trevor Brice
Address - Russway Farm, Westport
Convicted - 14/10/92
Fine - £120 (see below) and £60 costs
Magistrates - Taunton Deane
Age/D.O.B - 32
Also convicted - Norman Miller
Notes - Found guilty of causing damage to a badger sett, interfering with a badger sett. (£60 for each offence). Thomas Brice employed Miller to do some improvements on his land with an earth digger, and exposed the sett when digging with this.
Name - Tucker Stephen Cyril
Address - 44 Lyndhurst Crescent, Blidworth
Convicted - 13/1/93
Fine - £300 and £200 costs
Magistrates - Louth
Age/D.O.B - 37
Also convicted - Wayne Coupe, Gary Tucker and Andrew West
Notes - Caught 4/5/92. All pleaded guilty to interfering with a badger sett. Andrew West was due to appear in court at a later date after being found guilty of possessing 5 dead badgers, which he kept in his freezer. Defended by Nick Doherty. They said they were after foxes and rabbits.
Name - Tuckwell Edward
Address - Hampton Estate, Seale, near Aldershot
In court 14/5/96
Case dismissed
Magistrates - South West Surrey
Age/D.O.B -
Also charged - Alone
Notes - Tuckwell was charged with interfering with a badger sett. Defended by Michael Goodridge, Tuckwell pleaded not guilty to the charge, he said he suffered a lot of problems with rabbits on the estate and thought the sett was inhabited by rabbits. He denied he intended to gas the sett.
Name - Tull Ian
Address - Wyndham Road, Dover
Convicted - ?
Fine - £600 and £50 costs
Magistrates - Dover
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted - Alan Ball and Stephen Hutchinson
Notes - Caught 31/10. All found guilty of digging for badgers. Ian Tull failed to show up in court and sent a sick note which the court refused to accept. Police caught them at another sett.
Name - Turner John (Game Warden)
Address - Park House, Millom
Convicted - 30/1/83
Fine - £700
Magistrates - Millom
Age/D.O.B - 39
Also convicted - Raymond Mossop, Stephen Mossop, Alan O'Brian and Michael Crelin.
Notes - John Turner looked after the woods in which the badger sett was located. 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 - Turner Thomas
Address - Mahom Avenue, Rawmarsh
Convicted - 4/4/89
Fine - £400 and £67 costs
Magistrates - Uttoxeter
Age/D.O.B - 31
Also convicted - Alan Webster and Albert Bales
Notes - Found guilty of digging for badgers and attempting to take a badger. Barry Peachy gave evidence for the defence. Mr Charles Auld defended both of them.
Name - Twynham Peter William
Address - Heol Fawr, Penyrheol
Convicted - June 1986
Fine - ?
Magistrates - Warminster
Age/D.O.B -
Also convicted - Alone
Notes -