Land agent cleared over RSPB pesticides claim

Land agent cleared over RSPB pesticides claim

After three days of legal submissions, the RSPB offered no evidence against Simon Clowes of Davis & Bowring Sporting Agency.


By Barnaby Dracup

Tuesday, 02 December 2008

A land agent, with responsibility for Lord Vestey’s grouse moors on the Stean estate in North Yorkshire, was recently cleared of permitting a gamekeeper to store pesticides illegally.

After three days of legal submissions, the RSPB offered no evidence against Simon Clowes of Davis & Bowring Sporting Agency.

The prosecution followed a raid by the RSPB and North Yorkshire police at Moor House Farm, Nidderdale, in 2007.

Mr Clowes told Shooting Times: “This case highlights the attention keepers, moor owners and their managers must pay to the control of substances hazardous to health.”


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