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Men caught hare coursing handed crime's toughest punishment

Four Cambridgeshire men have been fined and given suspended jail terms following successful police prosecution

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Rural police have praised the prosecution of the hare coursers as police have said ‘It was an amazing result and a first for Lincolnshire’
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Rural police have praised the prosecution of the hare coursers as police have said ‘It was an amazing result and a first for Lincolnshire’

Four men have been given suspended jail sentences, banned from keeping dogs for five years and issued criminal behaviour orders following a prosecution for hare coursing in Lincolnshire. The sentences...

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