Cheshire Foxhound Vehicle Injures Fox Hunt Monitor

Police are investigating last night after an anti-bloodsports campaigner was injured at a hunt meeting in Cheshire.

The woman, a member of the Cheshire branch of the League Against Cruel Sports, sustained minor injuries to her arm and hand in the incident when she was involved in a collision with a pick-up truck taking a dead horse away from the hunt scene.

Cheshire Police yesterday confirmed they were investigating a road incident involving a Toyota pick-up and a pedestrian on Bates Mill Lane, Tiverton, near Tarporley. The LACS said the incident happened when two of their hunt monitors were standing by the road while the horse’s body was being removed.

The horse had been destroyed after it suffered a stress fracture of one of its legs while galloping during the hunt.

The police were called to the scene and video footage of the incident shot by the League monitors has been handed to the police to assist their inquiry. Minutes before the incident, the LACS claim a video operator was pushed and jostled by hunt followers.

Janet Smart, regional representative of the LACS, said: “It is common knowledge that Cheshire hunters resent us being at the hunts, filming and exposing what they get up to, so that the public can see for themselves the havoc that occurs.

A spokesman for the Cheshire Foxhounds said they could not comment on the accident as it was a matter being investigated by the police.

By David Banks, Daily Post, 12 December 1995