This story has nothing to do with raptor persecution – it’s about a solicitor – Yvonne Hossack - is accused of bringing her profession into disrepute, and will face a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal next month. You can read the full details on the Daily Telegraph web site.
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Hello, Natural England – that photograph accompanying the article: breach of police licence conditions or what? Necessary visit? Is there a crime going on there (apart from the obvious)? Bona fide raptor workers would be severely taken to task for showboating like that, and rightly so too.
On Friday 7th August, representatives of Lancashire Police Force will be meeting the conservation worker – wrongly cautioned under s59 of the Police Reform Act 2002 – at his solicitor’s office. Will they, I wonder, have the integrity to own up that the charge was nothing more than an attempt to intimidate and harass somebody who was only trying to see that the law is upheld with regards to protecting our wildlife? Or will they ‘close ranks’ as is so often the case? Continue reading Let’s persecute the conservationists – Part 3
There are some things you need to know about me first. I set this site up initially for the benefit of the North West Raptor Group, for reporting on raptor persecution in the Bowland area. In the months since its inception, it has attracted interest from a much wider area, together with reports of raptor persecution elsewhere in the UK.
The police claim there is no public vehicular access up the Dunsop valley, that cars must be left in Dunsop Bridge, and those wishing to visit the Eagle Owls must walk from there – a mere 5Km each way! Continue reading Police use off-road nuisance law to block public road
Anyhow, the principle was: coppers good – uphold the law. Criminals bad – deserve all they get. Later on in life I found that it wasn’t that clear-cut. For example, at a murder trial I watched policeman after policeman attest under oath they had lost their notebooks with the details of their (allegedly) botched investigation into my sister-in-law’s death. This didn’t go down at all well with the police who were pulling out all the stops to prosecute the accused. I’m sure many of you reading this will have had at least second-hand experience of bad policing though, so let’s move on. Continue reading Let’s persecute the conservationists – Part 1
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