In the first case of its kind, former gamekeeper Racster Dingwall pleaded guilty at York Magistrates Court to conspiring to commit wildlife crime. The RSPB secretly filmed him planning to shoot a hen harrier. Contrary to RSPB figures, convictions for raptor persecution have fallen to a new low, at just two per year, down from more than a dozen per year at the start of the 2000s.
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