Poachers sentenced for shooting hares in Cashmoor area

Four men have been sentenced after they shot at hares from a moving car in North Dorset fields.

The four men, all in their twenties, were handed court orders restricting their activities for five years.

John Frederick Burton, aged 28 and of Basildon, Essex, Tommy Edward Catanach, 25 and of Romford, Essex, William Holmes, 22 and of Milton, Cambridgeshire, and Levie Lee, 20 and of Stondon Massey, Essex, were sentenced at Poole Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, April 19 after entering guilty pleas to a charge of trespassing in pursuit of game. They received fines as well as being ordered to pay court costs and a victim surcharge.