TV chef and top trainer plead guilty to hunting offences (From The Northern Echo)

TV chef and top trainer plead guilty to hunting offences

10:54am Tuesday 1st September 2009 in News By Matt Westcott

TELEVISION chef Clarissa Dickson-Wright and a leading race horse trainer today pleaded guilty to hunting offences in North Yorkshire.

Dickson-Wright, from Midlothian, Scotland, and Sir Mark Prescott, of Newmarket, Suffolk, admitted attending two hare coursing events in March 2007.

Neither defendant appeared in person at Scarborough Magistrates Court for the private prosecution, which was brought by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).