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Holkham Estate (Norfolk) head gamekeeper charged with offences (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter SallyAnn
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Well, if your a Viscount, there's clearly no charge to answer to, eh, old boy! (mine's a single malt at the club later) The fact that the gamekeeper is still there goes to show that those in charge only employ those who are willing to break the law.
Irish Kite
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The people behind these type of crimes are no better then the criminals involved in the poaching of rhino in Africa or Tigers in Asia. Its about time the law in the UK reflected this fact:C
black kite 1964
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as a former eton boy should he not be making laws and running the country - oh he already does!
MJB
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See today's Times (27 Jan 11) re proposed trial cull of crows and other predators (Save the songbirds: Magpie and crow cull planned to save the dawn chorus; http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/). Clearly, his easily-impressed friends in high circles agree with you.
MJB
dave higgins
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Are any of the regular participants on the Norfolk forum aware of the fact that the people involved in the latest crime against wild life at Holkham could under the new governments scheme become managers of the Holkham NNR.
black kite 1964
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Spendid news. Guns. Poisons. No birds of prey!
Irish Kite
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Protests would need to be organized and highlighted in the local media to expose the disgusting hypocracy of these types:C
black kite 1964
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Make them live on council estates. Force them to send there children to failing state schools. If they complain hunt them with dogs! That should do the trick!
Lavenderblue
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we go to Holkham quite regularly in the summer months -I had no idea this stuff was still going on - how naive I am. I am glad that this scumbag has been caught
John Cantelo
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I was born and raised on a council estate and worked for some years in what was once dubbed a 'failing' state school which drew many of its pupils from a deprived council estate. Despite the stigma attached to the school, it had many great students who have gone on to enjoy successful careers/fulfilling lives. So forgive me if I find this casual stereotyping deeply offensive - I appreciate it wasn't meant to be thus, but it again underscores the need to think before you post. I'm no more keen on cruelty to humans than I am to that meeted out to animals either come to that,
black kite 1964
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John. So was i. My comments are directed at an elitist group of individuals who believe they are above the law. This group would shoot almost anything and probably do. If allowed they would hunt the young unemployed on there estates! Sorry if i offended you john. My point is that these estate owners do not give a shit about your views. So given this they outdated ideas need to treated with contempt in return!
John Cantelo
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Thanks for clarifying what you meant. I just get damn tired of the way in which council estates and 'failing' schools regularly get demonised. I appreciate that in essence what you were saying is that the arrogant 'toffs' who head up the pro-hunting lobby may need taking down a peg or two and that the environment you describe is just the place for it. Sorry if I took it the wrong way, but I think you appreciate that it was somewhat ambiguously expressed. Apologies to you for my misinterpretation and to others for indulging my bad temper,
black kite 1964
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John. I lived in pro hunting village in north yorks. After the hunting ban it was clear that nothing had changed. Hunting continued, the police did nothing. My point. These individuals do just what they like!
John B (not the sloop)
Don't blame me I didn't vote for 'em
Well let's see what sort of sentence he gets before we break out the beers....
Forelock tugging, no neck inbred throw backs. If theres no profit in land use for them or the animals they purport to nurture then they wipe it out. And, subsequently have the protection of their own neckless 'old school tie' wearing ********s to hide anything away. So Viscount Cola has the balls to threaten the police too for doing their job? Come the revolution.
Agreed. At least getting as far as a prosecution is progress though. Maybe we could at least put the beers in the fridge.
Mike Price
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and of course wait until the appeal is over as well, I posted in the news section that they have cut the egg smugglers sentence to 18 months on appeal today
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-12338843
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-12338843
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Shadow-watcher
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I find it so difficult to understand how people who have probably spent their life living and working in the countryside can have such a destructive dis-respect for nature. I too must tolerate a local fox hunt, carried out by famers who's families have worked the land for centuries. It goes on regardless of the ban, and many conservation groups including the RSPB are fully aware of it.
This Holkham idiot is a very normal representation of the dominating attitude toward biodiversity which climaxed in the victorian period and cost us so very much ecologically.
On a happier note, I terrified two huntsmen while I was on exercise wiht the Royal Marines a few years ago. They were tryng to flush out a fox from our designated no-tresspass zone, but instead found me and my Minimi light machine gun. As I appeared from the bushes a meter away from them and totally unexpectedly, they jumped a full foot in the air. I escorted them out of the area, and a few minutes later watched the fox dissapear deeper into our no-tresspass zone. Just wish someone could have done the same at Holkham
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