An appeal is pending for convicted gamekeeper Glenn Brown, who was found guilty in June 2011 of offences relating to the illegal use of a cage trap to catch raptors on the National Trust’s Howden Moor in Derbyshire (see here, here and here).
This information was included in a feature article called ‘Raptors and the persecution of gamekeepers’ in the August 2011 edition of Modern Gamekeeping, written by solicitor Tim Ryan. It’s a tediously unoriginal article (you know, the old ‘planting of raptor corpses on shooting estates in order to get a keeper prosecuted’ routine), for which nobody has ever produced any evidence by the way. If there’s interest, the article can be posted here later.
The basis of Brown’s pending appeal is not given.
Raptor Persecution UK 
The only way this man should get off is due to xxx xxxx [xxxxxxxx xx xxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx] xxxxx x xxxxxx xxxxx. xxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxx x xxxxxxx. [Edited as potentially libellous]. Mark Avery is now trying to call this chairman ‘a non hater’ but the damage has been done by his articles in national newspapers. He should be made to resign from his post. No doubt he will be out shooting Red Grouse today regardless of the Hen Harrier killed on xxxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxxxx [Editor’s note: you need to provide documentary evidence that the hen harrier was killed on this property before this can be published].