Remember the Devon huntsman, Christopher Marles, who was convicted of deliberately assaulting, Helen Weeks, an animal rights activist? He got six months.
Exeter Crown Court Recorder Ros Collins told him he had acted like an “arrogant, cowardly, drunken lout” when he used his horse ‘Whisper’ to knock her into a muddy ditch three times causing a back injury which required hospital treatment.
Turns out that at the time of his attack on Weeks, Marles was “serving a suspended sentence for attacking another hunt monitor.”