Clarissa Dickson Wright - B list celebrity - pleads guilty to hunting

Keeptheban | 01.09.2009 11:04 | Animal Liberation

The so-called "celebrity" Chef, Clarissa Dickson Wright, has pleaded guilty to hunting.

The so-called "celebrity" Chef, Clarissa Dickson Wright, has pleaded guilty to hunting.

The overated "chef", and b-list celebrity, who thinks that she is alot more famous than she actually is, pleaded guilty to a charge of hare-coursing at Scarborough Magistrates Court this morning.

Everybody knows that the Police like to pick and choose which laws they want to enforce, and will turn a blind eye to laws that they don't want, which means that hunting offences almost always go uninvestigated.

As a result the conviction this morning was a result of a private prosecution brought by the International Fund for Animal Welfare.

Keeptheban

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Serves her right !

01.09.2009 11:24

Just for a bit of background, she has also previously been charged with Drink Driving, she has been struck-off as a barrister, and has lost several jobs for her drunken behaviour.

Not a very nice lady - so this conviction is well deserved - at least she pleaded guilty and admitted it,

@sab

Police condemned by Judge...

01.09.2009 12:24

In a previous case last month (where the owner of the land was convicted) the Magistrate condemned the police who turned up to the coursing event and went away having done nothing to stop it. Why did this require a private prosecution, why won't the police uphold the law?

Newshound

reply to "Gregg"

01.09.2009 15:12

Hi "Gregg" - you are obviously a wind-up merchant by the fact that you have chosen that name.

Who cares.

Just for anyone else reading this - this whole case exposes a much wider issue.

Yes, she pleaded guilty to a criminal offence - but this only came about due to a PRIVATE PROSECUTION.

The Police are paid by taxpayers to uphold the law, and yet even when a clear and simple law, like the Hunting Act, is passed through parliament, and years later, the police still appear to be unable to respond to this legislation.

So it is left to individuals to donate to groups to provide the funding for a private prosecution - something we have paid for TWICE - with our taxes, to pay the police who didn't do the job that they are paid for by the taxpayer in this case.

There are hundreds of examples of people that have been physically assaulted by hunters, with witnesses and sometimes with photographic/video evidence - but the police do not want to get involved with hunting.

They pick and choose what laws that they want to enforce, and ignore serious crimes, if they are committed by hunters.

Well done to the International Fund For Animal Welfare for bringing this prosecution, and all who have donated to them.

@sab

link

01.09.2009 16:39

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECJwRKngYBs

@sab

absolute discharge

04.09.2009 09:47

Of course, the silly cow wasn't given any sentence at all, having been given an absolute discharge- would much rather have seen her mucking out her local RSPCA shelter, though she'd need a muzzle to stop her eating the animals. (that's a comment on her attitude and values btw, not her size!)

Infinite Spark