Hunters on horses scuffle with saboteurs: ‘You want a f****** fight?’

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. During the protracted incident, which involved the Middleton and Derwent Hunt in Yorkshire last year, hunters are seen riding their horses at masked hunt saboteurs, lashing at them with whips and brawling on the ground. “I’m off the horse, come on.” The same man then confronts a protester wearing a mask over his face and holding a spray bottle containing a liquid which throws hounds off the scent of foxes. A hunter from the Middleton and Derwent Hunt in Yorkshire is seen straddling a protester in the fracas in 2018 The 53-year-old builder said: “In 30 years of doing this that was the most frightening situation I’ve found myself in. “We were trying to get away but we couldn’t find a way.” Following a two day hearing at York Crown Court the charges against the men were dropped.