A judge has said he was staggered the RSPCA spent nearly £330,000 prosecuting David Cameron’s hunt.
Tim Pattinson, a district judge, said it wasn’t his place to offer an opinion but that members of the public could ask if the animal charity could better spend its money.
He spoke after the Heythrop hunt, based in Oxfordshire, pleaded guilty to four charges of intentionally hunting a fox with dogs on land in the Cotswolds. Former huntsman Julian Barnfield, 49, and recently retired hunt master Richard Sumner, 68, also pleaded guilty to the same charges.
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