The Scottish Gamekeepers’ Association has just issued a statement about convicted Aswanley Estate gamekeeper, Craig Barrie, following our earlier blog post today (here).
The SGA says Barrie was not a member of the organisation.
SGA chairman Alex Hogg uses the statement to encourage gamekeepers to become a member of a representative body, “…..to make sure they are getting all the information neccessary to carry out their work in line with law and best practice“. A laudable aim, but of course, being an SGA member does not neccessarily equate to carrying out work ‘in line with law and best practice’ – twice convicted gamekeeper David Whitefield was an SGA member at the time of both his convictions (see here), although we now understand the SGA has, albeit belatedly, given him a “life ban”. We also understand that another SGA member has been charged with alleged wildlife crime offences, but we won’t comment further on that until legal proceedings have finished.
SGA statement on Aswanley Estate gamekeeper Craig Barrie here
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