The latest investigations, breaking stories and special reports from BTM. We expose the criminality and intimidation of so-called hunt saboteurs across the UK, giving a voice to the rural communities they target.
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Susan Sutton-Lloyd, a leading figure in the now disbanded Roaming Sabs group, has given up sabbing after a reported fallout with other members of the anti-hunt fraternity. In a parting shot to her erstwhile colleagues, Sutton-Lloyd told Behind The Masks, “I am no longer a Sab nor do I wish
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Former veterans minister Ivor Caplin has been arrested after being filmed allegedly trying to meet with a 15-year-old boy he met online. The ex-Labour Party MP for Hove was stopped at Brighton train station by the campaign group Stop Stings, who had been communicating with Mr Caplin for several months
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The festive period is traditionally a jolly and busy time for hunts across the UK, bringing people together throughout the countryside and lifting community spirits. In keeping with traditional values, the Dungarvan Foxhounds Supporters Club in Ireland was hoping to raise money for charity, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)
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The BBC’s Springwatch presenter Chris Packham has found himself in hot water once again after spending the day with convicted bomb maker Mel Broughton while livestreaming an outing with the Northants Hunt Sabs. On Saturday 28th December, Packham joined the Northants Hunt Sabs to disrupt a meeting of the
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Originally Suffolk Against Foxhunting, Suffolk Action for Wildlife (SAF) was created in 2021 by Anna Bye as a volunteer-based hunt monitoring and disrupting organisation. The group is still chaired by Bye, a local mortgage broking business owner, and now covers most of Suffolk, helping local hunt saboteur organisations to disrupt
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Behind The Masks can exclusively reveal that a member of the East Yorkshire Coast Hunt Sabs has been arrested and questioned by the police following an incident with a member of the Derwent Hunt on Saturday. Mark Fothergill was arrested by North Yorkshire Police on suspicion of assault. He has
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A man was charged with two counts of assault by beating after throwing soup over women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen in Sheffield on 21 September. Behind The Masks can now reveal that the alleged assaulter – named by the police as Ben Lindsay, 34 of Fitzwilliam Street, Barnsley – is a
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A hunt saboteur was arrested outside of the Wynnstay Hunt Kennels on 2 October in connection to an incident where an 18-year-old hunt member was reportedly followed in a car. According to sources, four carloads of hunt saboteurs, believed to have been from Liverpool, tried to follow some hunt members
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Two Kent hunt saboteurs, Harry Blackhurst and Robert Bridger, have been charged with harassment. The pair appeared before Margate Magistrates' Court in mid-August and their trial is due to begin on 30 April 2025. Blackhurst, who is a senior recruitment manager at global logistics platform Flexport, is the spokesperson
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In December 2023, Lord Mandelson made the extraordinary confession that in 1996 then-Labour leader Tony Blair accepted a £1 million donation from Brian Davies, founder of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, in order to end fox hunting. “I’ve known for many years that Labour’s Hunting Act 2004
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A former joint master of the Pytchley with Woodland Hunt in Northamptonshire, Mark Ferguson, has successfully appealed his 2022 conviction for assault, with the judge concluding that a hunt saboteur was the real aggressor. During the appeal hearing at Nottingham Crown Court on August 29th and 30th, His Honour Judge
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The large group of hunt saboteurs who disrupted a grouse shoot at the Wemmergill Estate on 12th August boasted of being paid £200 each to aggravate guests and incite violence, according to an eyewitness. The observer, who we are choosing not to name for safety reasons, reported that the saboteurs