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Men caught hare coursing handed crime's toughest punishment

Four Cambridgeshire men have been fined and given suspended jail terms following successful police prosecution

Jane Thynne
Head of News and Business
clock • 2 min read
Rural police have praised the prosecution of the hare coursers as police have said ‘It was an amazing result and a first for Lincolnshire’
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Rural police have praised the prosecution of the hare coursers as police have said ‘It was an amazing result and a first for Lincolnshire’

Four men have been given suspended jail sentences, banned from keeping dogs for five years and issued criminal behaviour orders following a prosecution for hare coursing in Lincolnshire. The sentences...

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