Abigail Butcher, H&H news editor

The Crawley and Horsham hunt, together with more than 80 landowners, will go to London’s High Court next month to try to stop saboteurs trespassing and causing harassment and nuisance.

The Crawley and Horsham has employed a leading harassment lawyer to take the ground-breaking civil action which it hopes will put a stop to the tactics used by the Sussex Wildlife Protection group and its two main organisers, Simon and Jaine Wilde (pictured).

“Since the Hunting Act they have been using old sabbing tactics — balaclavas, sprays, whips, hunting horns and tape recorders — to disrupt our legal hunting activities,” said senior master Anthony Sandeman, who is representing the hunt in the action. “But the main thing is the continual trespass. Farmers are getting fed up with it.”

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