CONVICTED (2024) | hare coursing gang members Samuel Percy Jack Malcolm Sheady, born 19 October 1978, son Samuel Sheady Jr aka Zane Sheedy, born 15 June 2001, both of 15 Bro Gwilym, Cefn Mawr, Wrexham LL14 3NY, and Jason John Davis, born c. 1989, of Ecton Park Lane Travellers Site, Lower Ecton Lane, Great Billing, Northampton NN3 5HQ.
The Sheadys and their associate, convicted violent criminal Jason Davis were arrested on 29 November 2022, after they were seen killing a hare with a dog near Spalding, Lincolnshire Police said.
After they were spotted by a police patrol, they drove off before crashing into the fence of a house in the village of Great Hale.
The men fled across a field on foot but were caught by officers, including a dog unit.
Four dogs were found in the boot of the abandoned car, including one that was wearing a tracker around his neck.
The dogs were taken to a kennel to be looked after and have been forfeited and will be given new homes.
The men had their car confiscated.
All three men initially pleaded not guilty, but changed their plea at Lincoln Magistrates’ Court and were sentenced last week.
The court ordered the trio to pay £15,900 each in compensation for kennelling the seized dogs.
They were also fined £700 each and had their vehicle, cash and other equipment confiscated.
Sheady senior was told to forfeit £200 in cash and Sheady junior £180.
Additionally, the men were banned from being on private land in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire without permission between July and April.
The trio are appealing against the sentence.
They know what they do is illegal and yet year after year cause huge amounts of money and time, stress for landowners and worst of all violent cruelty to wildlife and their dependent animals. Despicable men.They contribute nothing, take all.