Published:
1:42 PM January 22, 2021
The damaged caused to the farmer s field in Fowlmere, left and the moment the hare-coursing trio were caught by police.
- Credit: Cambs police
A trio of hare coursers have been sentenced after they caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage to a Fowlmere farmer’s crops, while attempting to make off from police.
Jimmy Cole, aged 43, Chase Loveridge, 36, and 20-year-old Levi Cole, were spotted driving a silver Land Rover across a field near Cambridge Road in Fowlmere, at about 12 noon on 24 September last year.
Officers from the force’s Rural Crime Action Team were able to quickly box the car in near the junction with the A505.
Published:
12:56 PM January 22, 2021
Updated:
1:52 PM January 22, 2021
Three hare coursers from Surrey - whose five-seater car was overloaded with three men, three children and three dogs - have been fined £1,000 for damaging a farmer’s crops.
- Credit: CAMBRIDGESHIRE CONSTABULARY
Three hare coursers - whose five-seater car was overloaded with three men, three children and three dogs - have been fined £1,000 for damaging a farmer’s crops.
When he was spotted with Chase Loveridge, 36, and Levi Cole, 20, the 43-year-old driver, Jimmy Cole, denied hare coursing and claimed he had driven to Cambridgeshire from Surrey to walk the dog .
They were seen driving a silver Land Rover across a field near Cambridge Road, in Fowlmere, at noon on September 24.