Man avoids jail over badger dig
14 March 2006 - BBC News
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man who snatched badgers from their sett has been given 200 hours
community service and banned from keeping dogs.Tony Billington, 37, travelled from his home in Bamber Bridge,
Lancashire, to take the animals from a sett near Loggerheads in
Staffordshire. RSPCA officers found a badger carcass, the body of a cub and a
trail of blood across a field in January 2004. Billington, who could have been jailed, was also fined £1,000 for
badger digging by Cannock magistrates. The crime involves widening the opening of a sett and sending
dogs such as terriers in to flush out the badgers. For more information, please click the following link:
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