Men given suspended sentences for ‘releasing fox into path of hunt’
Members of Kimblewick Hunt in Oxfordshire guilty of causing animal unnecessary suffering
Two men convicted of animal cruelty offences after being filmed dragging a fox out of a tunnel and releasing it “into the path of a hunt” have been given suspended sentences.
Mark Vincent, 53, president of the Kimblewick Hunt, and Ian Parkinson, 65, had denied the charges, despite being caught on camera. In the video, the pair had appeared to use a rod to force a fox out from a hunting set – believed to have been built to attract the animals – before reaching in and pulling one out by its tail.