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category devon | miscellaneous | news report author Saturday March 14, 2009 01:44author by Hank Report this post to the editors

A Huntsman from Devon's been jailed for a moronic, unprovoked attack on a hunt monitor.



Christopher Marles used his horse to knock Helen Weekes over and send her flying into a ditch. When she climbed out, he threatened her and shoved her back in, despite her pleas for him to stop.

Marles stood and laughed at her as she clambered out again. Two people then pinned Miss Weekes, who was crying by this point, against a car and tried to take her camera. She later had to go to hospital with severe stomach pains, and has had trouble sleeping since the assault last March.

Marles, 47 from New Buildings, Farringdon, was jailed for 6 months at Exeter Crown Court, having also breached a previous suspended sentence - his lawyer claimed the huntsmen felt they shouldn't have been filmed, and that Marles had been drinking that day.

The case judge, Recorder Ros Collins told Marles "you acted like an arrogant, cowardly drunken lout and I hope you are thoroughly ashamed. You are lucky the injuries were not more serious".

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
 1   Bully     Sab    Sun Mar 15, 2009 13:20 
 2   Don't blame all hunters!     Megan    Sun Mar 15, 2009 15:57 
 3   Barbaric bullying primitives.     She    Sun Mar 15, 2009 18:36 
 4   hypocritical attitudes     Mr Fox    Sun Mar 15, 2009 20:57 
 5   other side of the coin     Tony Gosling    Sun Mar 15, 2009 21:20 
 6   Lack of understanding     Megan    Sun Mar 15, 2009 22:06 
 7   Idiotic.comment.     Ms. Fox    Sun Mar 15, 2009 22:44 
 8   "chopped someone's head off!     Accident will happen.    Sun Mar 15, 2009 23:01 
 9   Aggresive     Colin    Mon Mar 16, 2009 09:30 
 10   Who is the aggressor?     foxy    Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:46 
 11   Aggressive??     Colin    Mon Mar 16, 2009 16:06 
 12   Oh dear...     Citizen Snips    Mon Mar 16, 2009 21:35 
 13   Hmm     Megan    Mon Mar 16, 2009 23:03 
 14   Here we go!     Colin    Tue Mar 17, 2009 08:46 
 15   I can't be bothered to keep putting a subject...     Meagn    Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:09 
 16   Colin..     Matt    Tue Mar 17, 2009 21:08 
 17   No it doesn't     Collin    Wed Mar 18, 2009 09:02 
 18   Grrr     Megan    Wed Mar 18, 2009 14:28 
 19   Reality     Colin    Thu Mar 19, 2009 07:35 


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