Charlotte Fiander, spokeswoman for the Countryside Alliance, states that since so many people are still out hunting, the law should be changed (The Argus, "Hunt supporters turn out in force", December 27).
Would she suggest we should scrap the speed limit laws just because people break them? Or maybe we should all be allowed to drink and drive since we've heard that many still do.
What we need is some robust policing of these arrogant people who think it's okay to carry on hunting despite a law being passed in Parliament to ban it.
I've been out regularly monitoring hunts in Sussex and seen a rider laying a so-called trail that the hounds just walked past without one putting its nose to the ground.
Meanwhile, monitors were harassed and pushed by hunt stewards if they set one foot off the footpath. A woman monitor had her camera pushed into her face and another was nearly run down by a hunt supporter's vehicle, while police stood by and did nothing. However, a monitor who was accused of pushing hunt supporters, despite there being no evidence to support this and police not witnessing the act, was arrested on the spot and put in handcuffs.
These hunters have stated they are above the law and it appears they are right.
- Sue Baumgardt, Stoneham Road, Hove
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