CONVICTED (2013) | badger baiters Stephen Sankey, born 15 June 1981, and Devonn Smith, born 16 September 1992, previously of St Andrews Road, Castleford WF10 2NF*
Sankey and Smith were fined £520 for interfering with a badger sett in the Aberford area of Leeds. The couple were found guilty at the end of a one-day trial .
They were arrested under the 1992 Badgers Act on May 23, 2013, when police discovered an abandoned vehicle at the side of a road and then found the culprits digging into a known badger sett in nearby woodland.
A terrier was also found within the sett wearing a locator collar which allows the dog to be found underground by his or her owner.
Spades were recovered from the scene.
Sentencing | fined £520. No other penalties.
Source: Yorkshire Post (article removed).
*Additional Information
2022 address for Stephen Sankey:
LANCASTER STREET
CASTLEFORD
WF10 2NP
Bit Of Work The Scum Want.
They wouldn’t have the energy to go out Digging or Lamping, or whatever else they have been up to before they got caught.
They won’t have no luck for what they have done.
I ended up with that girl as a neighbour several years after the article, absolute nightmare and was still doing the same thing.
Now she had a little lurcher dog, which looked neglected,I suspected the dog was used for baiting and it killed a baby fox on our street,I reported that I thought the dog was used for baiting and council and dog warden basically made out I was crackers and wouldn’t remove the dog…I haven’t seen this until today! So my crazy guess was not really crazy was it.i didn’t know she had been done before!