Five in court for fox cruelty hearing

Five people accused of cruelty against fox cubs arrive at Birmingham Magistrates' Court. Nathan Parry, Julie Elmore and Paul Reece (arriving first, left-to-right), and Paul Oliver and Hannah Rose (second arrival) were charged after a police inquiry into alleged cruelty at a hunting kennel in south Herefordshire between May 13 and May 28 2016. Elmore, 54, and Parry, 38, both of the Brynarw estate near Abergavenny, face four charges of killing fox cubs, contrary to the 2006 Animal Welfare Act. Oliver, 39, and Rose, 29, both of Sutton Crosses, near Spalding, Lincolnshire, face four counts of animal cruelty. Reece, 47, from Itton, near Chepstow in South Wales, faces two charges of causing unnecessary suffering in Wormelow, Herefordshire, also alleged to have taken place in May 2016.