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Luke Rix guilty of baiting wild boar in Forest of Dean
Date of alert:
Sunday, 30 October 2022
Crime Ref:
Force:
Gloucestershire Constabulary
A man has been jailed and banned from keeping dogs after he illegally baited wild boar.
Police found body armour for dogs at his home and forensics uncovered videos of his crimes.
Luke Rix, 32, of Gilks Lane, Oxhill, Warwickshire used his dogs to hunt the wild animals.
On one occasion, which was captured on video, his dogs attacked a boar, causing suffering to the animal, before he inhumanely slaughtered it in the woods.
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