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The tory tabloids were full of outrage last weekend ( e.g Mos Link) that Prince William's bestie William van Cutsem was questioned by Norfolk police.
Well, the reason could be that his gamekeepers have been involved with illegal killing of supposedly protected raptors, in this case a young Goshawk was trapped and presumably disposed of out of camera range. Covertly recorded footage here.
BBC report.
Has there been any publicity in these rags that this was discovered? Go on, surprise me.
PS. In 2007, William van Cutsem was interviewed along with Prince Harry into the alleged shooting of two hen harriers on a nature reserve bordering the Queen’s Sandringham Estate. No charges were brought.
In 2016, a gamekeeper employed on the van Cutsem family’s Mossdale Estate in the Yorkshire Dales National Park was caught on camera setting illegal pole traps on the estate’s grouse moor. The gamekeeper escaped with a police caution after a procedural blunder by North Yorkshire Police, instead of facing a full blown prosecution, and the estate was forced to resign its membership from the Moorland Association.
Well, the reason could be that his gamekeepers have been involved with illegal killing of supposedly protected raptors, in this case a young Goshawk was trapped and presumably disposed of out of camera range. Covertly recorded footage here.
BBC report.
Has there been any publicity in these rags that this was discovered? Go on, surprise me.
PS. In 2007, William van Cutsem was interviewed along with Prince Harry into the alleged shooting of two hen harriers on a nature reserve bordering the Queen’s Sandringham Estate. No charges were brought.
In 2016, a gamekeeper employed on the van Cutsem family’s Mossdale Estate in the Yorkshire Dales National Park was caught on camera setting illegal pole traps on the estate’s grouse moor. The gamekeeper escaped with a police caution after a procedural blunder by North Yorkshire Police, instead of facing a full blown prosecution, and the estate was forced to resign its membership from the Moorland Association.
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