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UPDATE ON THE HARE COURSING

EVENT OF 25th JANUARY

Detective Inspector Matthew Selves, attending a hare coursing event, making
who has led the investigation, said: off without payment, theft from shop,
“We do not underestimate the impact and driving offences. They will appear
January’s events had on our communities at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on
and the devastation they left behind. 12th and 19th September.
From the outset, we committed to a
thorough investigation, and the charging Cambridgeshire Constabulary hold
of 25 individuals demonstrates the scale regular meetings, the dates for which can
of our response and determination to be found on their website:
hold those responsible to account.” https://www.cambs.police.uk/area/your-
area/cambridgeshire/fenland
The charges follow a series of coordinated
arrests and seizures made in connection At the time of going to print the next
with a force-led investigation into scheduled meeting in our area is:
widespread criminal activity on Saturday, Open Community Café with Fenland
25th January. District Council
The events, which included reports of 11:00pm - 1:00pm, Fri 17th October
hare coursing, criminal damage, and 2025
dangerous driving, caused significant
disruption and concern in communities Doddington Church Rooms, New Street,
including Fordham, Ely, Prickwillow, Doddington
Littleport, Welney, Chatteris, Manea, Dianne Rowe
Wimblington and Doddington. Editor
Supported by Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire,
Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Thames Valley,
West Mercia, Leicestershire, West
Midlands, Northampton and Essex
Police, as well as the National Rural Crime
Unity (NRCU) and the National Wildlife
Crime Unit, Cambridgeshire officers have
carried out extensive inquiries in the
weeks and months since, including arrest
warrants across multiple counties.
A total of 43 individuals have been arrested
and one juvenile voluntarily interviewed.
Of those, 25 have been charged with a
combination of 39 offences including

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