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

Kate Cronin
By Kate Cronin
Published 6th Jan 2023, 10:09 BST
Updated 7th Jan 2023, 13:55 BST
File image courtesy of The Badger TrustFile image courtesy of The Badger Trust
File image courtesy of The Badger Trust
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.

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.

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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.