Police tackling increasing poaching activity in rural areas

Doncaster Free Press

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00:00 Good on buddy, first and on the road squid like a b****.

00:13 Little bit wrong but we did it.

00:15 Went to Daniel Taylor's address to conduct a misuse of drugs act warrant.

00:19 When we entered we went into the back garden at the back of the premises.

00:25 There are numerous dog kennels, dogs running about and what can only be described as a

00:30 slaughterhouse in the back garden full of fox tails, deer skulls.

00:35 We found deer heads decomposing, some in bleach obviously being stripped.

00:41 Before we went in on the warrant there was a lot of intelligence came from the local

00:44 rural community.

00:45 It was pretty much nearly every night quad bikes going out with dogs, killing animals

00:50 and even deer carcasses, beheading.

00:52 There was several deer that had been beheaded.

00:55 So from that, the reports that came in from them, we were able to then establish actually

01:00 on this date at this time he was in that area.

01:03 There's some pictures or videos of him in that area at that time with his phone data.

01:07 So how are they supposed to look after a night lamp in boy?

01:11 True f****** poaching on a B&R for two nights, looks like a mug.

01:18 So obviously after the warrant we submitted the phones and downloaded those.

01:22 They returned with hundreds of videos and it was apparent that it was been over a long

01:26 period of time.

01:27 They've been going out on the videos.

01:30 It's not necessarily shows him, but it shows his dogs killing animals.

01:34 You can hear him, he's clearly filming them and he's narrating.

01:36 He's encouraging his dog, go on, go on, good lad, good lad.

01:39 It's always good and he's encouraging what he's wanting to do.

01:42 Come pick tonight boy, size of a b**** on there.

01:46 The first thing I soon realized watching was the quantity of violence.

01:52 It wasn't just the odd video.

01:53 It was nearly all the videos that were saved was absolutely brutal.

01:57 Those animals have been killed in the most barbaric way.

02:00 There's no humane way that they've been killed, they've been torn apart.

02:04 It's not something that people want to watch.

02:06 I certainly don't want to be watching that day in day out, but it's part of my job.

02:09 I've watched it all.

02:10 I've watched every single second of those videos and it's absolutely heartbreaking to think

02:14 that somebody would go out and do that to an innocent animal.

02:18 The videos were gruesome.

02:20 They literally showed the torture of different kinds of animals with Taylor's dogs ripping

02:28 these animals to shreds.

02:38 To hear those animals screaming out in pain, those innocent animals, and it's just deafening

02:43 that the fact that they're squealing, obviously in pain.

02:47 These aren't just a couple of seconds videos.

02:50 These are prolonged horrific attacks.

02:52 The dog is clearly trained to kill and it does not stop till it's killed.

02:58 Some of the videos, the actual guts are hanging out, the squealing out in pain.

03:04 It's horrendous.

03:05 It really should be for nobody to watch.

03:06 So I went out in half a season and look where I've done.

03:18 I'm done.

03:19 I'm done.

03:20 I'm done.

03:21 I'm done.

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