🥳 good news as more foxhunters have been arrested.
Avon and Somerset Police have charged Quantock Staghounds hunt master Chris Gibbons and huntsman Martin Watts with illegally hunting a wild mammal with dogs in relation to an incident on March 16, 2026.
Watts faces a further charge relating to a separate incident on April 23, 2026.
Both men are to appear in Taunton Magistrates’ Court on October 22, 2026 to answer the charges.
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