Two men charged with interfering with badger setts in Finedon set to appear in court today

Beaty and Phillips will appear before the court this morning charged with damaging setts

Two men accused of damaging badger setts in Finedon are set to appear before magistrates today.

File image courtesy of The Badger Trustplaceholder image
File image courtesy of The Badger Trust

Farmer Mark Robert Beaty, 59, and Gareth Phillips, 60, are charged with offences relating to sections three and twelve of the Protection of Badgers Act 1992.

They are accused of damaging a badger sett at Station Road, Finedon, between March 1 and March 4 last year.

Beaty, of Burrows Farm Lane, Little Addington, and Phillips, of Thrapston Road, Finedon, have both pleaded not guilty to the charge at a previous hearing.

They will again appear before magistrates in Wellingborough today.

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