BEHIND THE MASKS

For someone who campaigns against legal trail hunting, Deborah Hall has developed quite a taste for the chase.   Deborah Hall is no ordinary sab. As BTM has previously reported , the Cornwall-based coordinator of Action Against Foxhunting is known to push well beyond the boundaries of reasonable protest. From her failed petition to ban trail hunting on council land to her bizarre crusade against a street sign in Madron, Hall has repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to escala

Lardy lad Luke Tucker and his Northants Hunt Sabs pulled over by police, and try to leg it   Luke Tucker, ringleader of the Northants Hunt Sabs, was back in the spotlight last Saturday after reports of aggressive behaviour towards locals in Gunby village, Lincolnshire. The notorious group had descended on the area in a bid to disrupt a legal trail hunt by the Cottesmore Hunt, and in typical fashion, things quickly turned ugly. An elderly lady was reportedly nearly knocked ove

The Rotherham MP's emotive social media post reveals a government more interested in settling old class scores than listening to rural Britain Sarah Champion, the Labour MP for Rotherham, took to Facebook recently to declare herself "disgusted" that people still hunt foxes "under the smoke screen of trail hunting." The response from the public was swift and overwhelmingly negative. Comment after comment challenged her position, questioned her priorities, and exposed the gapin

Chris Packham just so happens to stumble across the perfect sob story while out for a stroll in the Dorset countryside. During the now-infamous "Operation Smokescreen" livestream on 7 February, BBC Springwatch presenter Chris Packham spent five hours following the Blackmore & Sparkford Vale Hunt around Bishop's Caundle with a camera crew and North Dorset Hunt Saboteurs in tow. The veteran anti-hunt campaigner posted a reel to his Facebook page featuring a couple he claimed to

Photo on Ahlen's Hinge account A Kent-based hunt saboteur has been caught using a fake identity on popular dating app Hinge in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to infiltrate the hunting and countryside community.   Carly Ahlen , a regular with West Kent Hunt Saboteurs and founder of GABO Wildlife, created a profile under the name 'Clementine', portraying herself as a Land Rover-loving, privately educated woman with a passion for "The Countryside… Traditional British Va

Cheshire Monitors' Anthony Robinson was allegedly caught by police illegally flying his drone out of sight and over private property at Cholmondeley Park, Cheshire. Sources tell us Robinson was asked to leave after he was unable to produce a valid drone licence when challenged by officers. Anthony Robinson failing to find his drone license   UK drone laws are straightforward: you must stay below 120 metres (400 feet) and always keep your drone within visual line of sight (VLO

Bridestowe Village Hall in Devon with stunning views of Dartmoor, serves as a local community hub. In yet another display of activism masquerading as rural advocacy, the Plymouth and West Devon Hunt Saboteurs have launched a campaign against Bridestowe Village Hall for committing the apparently heinous crime of... functioning as a village hall. Their target? A fundraising lunch for the Spooners & West Dartmoor Hunt this Sunday. Their demand? That the hall cancels a legitimate

Video evidence shows Emma Jayne Corbould collecting hidden recording device — But she won’t face any punishment. A hunt supporter near Wrexham was horrified to discover a surveillance camera hidden in a hedge outside his family home where his children play, planted by an anti-hunt saboteur who has allegedly been harassing him. The victim, who spoke to BTM on condition of anonymity, found the concealed device in September and immediately reported it to police, filming his disc

Hunt saboteur Neal Buckoke orchestrates online attack that could force a Somerset farmer to cull her beloved animals Neal Buckoke Neal Buckoke , a notorious hunt saboteur and anti-establishment conspiracy theorist, is the driving force behind Two Counties Hunt Saboteurs' vicious campaign against Somerset Reindeer Ranch, an online crusade that could result in the culling of 10 beloved reindeer.   Sarah Sutton, a Navy veteran who has operated Somerset Reindeer Ranch near Yeovil

The New Hunting Ban, a political pressure group which previously broke parliamentary standards , returned to Parliament on 16 December, this time to publish their legislative recommendations to ban trail hunting. The campaign group is preparing to intensify pressure on the government ahead of ministers' planned public consultation on the issue.   At the event, Labour MP Neil Duncan-Jordan announced he has begun drafting a Private Members' Bill based on these recommendations,

Duprey being led away in handcuffs by police officers. Richard Duprey has been given a nine-month suspended sentence and £500 fine for Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH). And his sab group? They're celebrating it. Richard Duprey , also known as Richard White, was sentenced on was sentenced on 9 January at Craigavon Courthouse to a nine-month suspended sentence and a £500 fine for a vicious assault on a 79-year-old man in August 2024 on New Forge Road, Magheralin. The details are gri

The Official BTM Guide to Spotting & Stopping Hunt Saboteurs Think you’ve spotted a sab? Here’s how to turn that encounter into evidence we can use. Follow these six steps to help us expose the criminality and anti-social behaviour by these countryside terrorists. 1. Pin your position Always lock down your location. Drop a WhatThreeWords pin, save your GPS coordinates, drop a pin on your Maps app, note the nearest road junction or landmark. Be specific. 2. Get your camera ou

The British Hound Sports Association has called out yet more mistruths from so-called charity the League Against Cruel Sports after it staged its latest attention-seeking stunt in Cirencester.  On Thursday, LACS campaigns manager John Petrie wandered around the Gloucestershire town’s Market Square, harassing locals with a stuffed toy fox doused in fake blood.  According to the League’s own social media pages, Petrie “spoke to shoppers and even carol singers in Cirencester’s

On Saturday 22 November, as the master of the Burton Hunt counted in his hounds after a solid day’s trail hunting, he was alarmed to come up one dog short. Wayward, an ironic name for such a loyal and experienced hound, had not returned to the fold. Wayward the hound The huntsman paced the tracks and footpaths around Cold Hanworth in Lincolnshire late into the evening, blowing his horn to bring the dog home. But it was nowhere to be seen. When hounds very occasionally do run

A group of saboteurs vandalised kennels belonging to the Derwent Hunt near Snainton in North Yorkshire. The sabs are thought to have struck in the early hours of Saturday morning, slashing the tires on an SUV and trailer used by the hunt. The vandals also graffitied the words ‘HUNT SCUM’ on the walls of the kennels. The perpetrators vandalised the Derwent kennels in the early hours of Saturday morning. It is not currently known who carried out the attack, however the Derwent

The terrorist sympathiser deemed too extreme for the League Against Cruel Sports was invited back to Westminster as the guest of your elected representatives.  Animal Liberation Front (ALF) supporter and Hunt Saboteur Association (HSA) Chair Simon Russell was back in Parliament last week, this time with the support of some seriously heavyweight political beasts. This is the same Simon Russell who was too toxic for even the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) to touch . The eve

The National Police Chiefs Council lead on illegal hunting, Chief Superintendent Matt Longman, spoke to a committee of anti-hunting activists in Parliament, just a few months after he was criticised for comparing trail hunting to serious crimes such as burglary and drug dealing . On Monday, Mr Longman attended a meeting in the House of Commons organised by the New Hunting Ban: a political pressure group which broke parliamentary standards  by falsely describing itself as havi

Hunt sab Anthony Robinson (37) has been found guilty of using threatening, abusive and insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause harassment, alarm and distress. Sentenced at Wrexham Magistrates’ Court on 23 September, Robinson was handed him a 10-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, along with a restraining order protecting his teenage victim. Robinson has also been ordered to undertake a programme of rehabilitation activity. Robinson, reportedly a member of

The League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) has performed the most spectacular U-turn. In a confusing display of double thinking, they've...

If there’s one thing sabs love more than terrorising the countryside  and beating up young girls , it’s trying to claim the moral high...