BREAKING: Hunt sab Anthony Robinson guilty of threatening and harassing a teenager

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 Cheshire Monitors, was arrested on 2 October 2024 outside the Wynnstay Hunt Kennels. Police had been called after Robinson had followed an 18-year-old hunt member in a car.

According to reports at the time, four carloads of hunt saboteurs, believed to have travelled from Liverpool, attempted to pursue hunt members back to their homes after a meet.

One young member apparently drove to the kennels seeking safety, but was then blocked in by masked men in a car. Police were called to the scene, where witnesses say Robinson hurled abuse at officers, calling them “scumbags”.

It seems this isn’t Robinson’s first conviction. On 28 April 2021, he was convicted of common assault after assaulting a landowner in November 2019 while sabbing with the South Coast Hunt Sabs.  He was fined £180, with costs of £325 and a victim surcharge of £32.

The previous year also saw Robinson in court, having been charged with assaulting a man and halting a legal pheasant and partridge shoot near Brighton. Witnesses say he was masked up.

One of the hunt sabs – possibly Robinson – photographed disrupting the Brighton shoot

Robinson is not the only sab with a taste for threatening behaviour. He follows a string of fellow sabs, including Matthew Slater (attacked a 62-year-old-man and teenage girl), Dafydd Hughes (assault), Charley Waring (threatening behaviour) and Paul Allman (criminal behaviour order, assault, threats to children and the elderly).

Robinson’s conviction, however, is a victory in the courts for the hunt members, and supporters, and rural people who have been targeted, intimidated and harassed by hunt sabs.