Animal rights protesters targeted Jeremy Clarkson’s Hawkstone Brewery after he let a hunt whose members have been fined for animal cruelty offences onto his land.
Campaigners descended on the site in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucs., with banners reading “Jezza, hands of me badgers” and “Stop those dirty hunts”.
Three Counties Hunt Saboteurs and Gloucestershire Badger Office said they organised the protest after Clarkson allowed The Heythrop Hunt onto his estate.
Campaigners descended on the site in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucs., with banners reading “Jezza, hands of me badgers” and “Stop those dirty hunts”.
Three Counties Hunt Saboteurs and Gloucestershire Badger Office said they organised the protest after Clarkson allowed The Heythrop Hunt onto his estate.
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00:00 We've got more blocking. We've got where hounds have been. Yeah, they've marked here, definitely.
00:10 On Thursday 25th January 2024, the Heathrop Hunt were hunting on Diddley Squatterland,
00:16 owned by Jeremy Clarkson. Charlie Frampton was huntsman on the day and therefore in charge
00:21 of the pack of hounds. They were heard speaking inland and were believed to be marking to
00:25 ground, where hounds indicate that a fox has escaped below ground, for example into a badger
00:30 set. Why are you playing that Jason? I'm just watching Instagram. You're just coincidentally
00:38 watching Instagram? Yeah. The music you can hear is being played by our Heathrop Hunt
00:47 stalkers. These are hunt supporters who are tasked throughout the day to follow us around,
00:51 to make noise such as playing music, to make it harder for us to hear the hunt, especially
00:55 when we think that hounds may be marking to ground, and also to put off any fox from running
01:00 in our direction whilst being hunted. They also relay our location back to the hunt themselves
01:06 so that they can try to avoid us. What are they doing that for? Our saps attended the
01:11 location again a few days later in order to prove that the set was active. So Heathrop
01:17 Hunt currently at Jeremy Clarkson's place. Presently hounds are speaking on what is believed
01:24 to belong to Jeremy Clarkson. Yeah, get that in the report. Oh yes! Marking to ground!
01:37 And this is definitely freshly blocked. We've got where hounds have been. Yeah, they've
01:47 marked here, definitely. We've got another entrance here blocked. About moving that.
01:55 You can see that's a set entrance. Bloody big. More hound prints here. And looks like
02:09 hounds may have been digging here. But if the fox did go to ground in here, where did
02:29 he go? I'm going to go and unblock a few more at the other side, call the police, get back
02:35 to the car and go home. I think I'm tired. So the badger set that was blocked is here.
02:43 I'll find another couple of open entrances to put these cameras up. Hound prints are
02:51 still here. The hound print's still here, even though it's about a week later. That
03:12 looks like it might be... I did open a few holes here. I might open some more up. Yeah,
03:19 lots and lots of fresh bedding just through there. You see that? I'm just going to take
03:28 a picture of that. And I'm going to put a camera up. Less than a month later, on 20th
03:57 February, the Heathrob were again hunting in the local area. This time, the pack was
04:03 under control of Chris Woodward, a huntsman who has multiple convictions for illegal hunting
04:08 offences and for blocking a badger set. When the set was checked on Diddley Squatland,
04:14 it was again found to be hard blocked. It is worth noting that all of this is taking
04:40 place within the badger breeding season, and that this area is signed up to be part of
04:45 the Badger Cull in Oxfordshire. The zone that this is in will soon become supplementary,
04:50 meaning that licences will allow for contractors to kill badgers between June and January each
04:55 year, as if the badgers didn't already have enough to contend with.
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