After three days of legal submissions, the RSPB offered no evidence against Simon Clowes of Davis & Bowring Sporting Agency.
By Selena Masson, Shooting Times
Monday, 01 December 2008
A land agent with responsibility for Lord Vesteys grouse moors on the Stean estate in North Yorkshire was recently cleared of permitting a gamekeeper to store pesticides illegally.
After three days of legal submissions, the RSPB offered no evidence against Simon Clowes of Davis & Bowring Sporting Agency. The prosecution followed a raid by the RSPB and North Yorkshire police at Moor House Farm, Nidderdale, in 2007.
Mr Clowes told ST: This case highlights the attention keepers, moor owners and their managers must pay to the control of substances hazardous to health.
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