CONVICTED (2022) | hare coursers Alexander Stewart, born c. 1987, of Miltonfold, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9DR, and Jackie Stewart, aka John Stewart, born c. 1980, currently of Methil, Fife, but with a base at the notorious Clinterty travellers site in Aberdeen.
The Stewarts, who are Scottish travellers, pleaded guilty to wildlife offences after being caught hare coursing.
In the early morning of Sunday November 8, 2020, a local farmer spotted a Subaru belonging to Alexander Stewart in the Redwell Farm and the Balindarg area of Angus, near Forfar.
They called police because the same car had been used in earlier hare coursing incidents.
One witness saw one of the men with a lurcher-type dog and was left in no doubt they were hare coursing.
Police arrived and both Stewart and three boys were detained.
The men’s mobile phones were sent for analysis. where it was discovered Alexander Stewart’s phone held several voice note messages – including how he had bought a dog to kill hares.
Another revealed how he bought his Subaru vehicle to go poaching while a further clip showed that he had been poaching in Aberdeen. A chilling photo of a young boy holding a dead hare beside a lurcher was also found on the device.
Jackie Stewart’s phone revealed a text message from November 3 that two days earlier “a first chase killed it over down a road”.
The footage is blacked out as the phone is put into a pocket, but the sound keeps running. Alexander and Jackie Stewart can be heard discussing the decline of hares in the area due to the population dying out from them being killed.
It also held a video of him with Alexander Stewart and the boys on November 8, 2020, discussing discussing the decline of hares in the area due to them being killed.
Both men admitted hunting with several dogs at various locations in Angus and Aberdeenshire.
Sentencing |
Alexander Stewart was ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work.
Jackie Stewart was fined £1,000.
Both received a six-month ban on keeping dogs.
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Bit Of Work The Scum Want.
They wouldn’t have the energy to go out Hunting little Animals.
They won’t have no luck for what they have been up to.