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https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/the-night-mad-max-hare-coursers-ran-riot-and-police-did-nothing-7h2lxssxv
Dozens of men, some in balaclavas, got out of the cars. “They came into our back garden,” Latta recalls. “My seven-year-old daughter was quite terrified. She was in tears, saying, ‘Daddy, what’s happening, are they going to come into the house?’” This was not a scene from a war zone. It happened two weeks ago in the Cambridgeshire Fens where, for a few, terrifying hours of pandemonium, citizens were left at the mercy of intruders who robbed petrol stations, raced through villages and rampaged across fields to stage an illegal hare coursing tournament on Latta’s land. They carried out this unruly incursion with impunity, not once challenged by police.
“I counted 13 vehicles and 70 men, they took over our farm for several hours, cutting through padlocks on gates, turning the place into their playground,” says Latta, 50, who grows onions, potatoes, wheat and barley on 2,000 acres just north of Cambridge. He called the police three times that afternoon in vain. “They said they would come. We’re still waiting four days later. We’ve felt alone and very vulnerable.”
It seems as if a shadow has fallen across parts of green and pleasant England, now in the grip of a rural crime epidemic and policing crisis, the latest, menacing manifestations of which are marauding convoys of rural road warriors.
The invaders, thought to be from the Traveller community, then roared into Manea (pronounced “mainee”), a village with 2,000 inhabitants which is surrounded by fields that are a haven for thousands of overwintering Russian swans. “We’re a sleepy, one-horse, fenland town, I’ve never seen anything like it,” says Charlie Marks, a local Conservative councillor. He was walking along the pavement when he heard the screeching of wheels as the first wave of a dozen 4x4s came round the corner: “They were doing about 70mph in a 30mph zone, and sometimes up on the pavement,” he said. “They were full of guys with balaclavas and sunglasses, one of them hanging out of the window grasping a pickaxe handle.”
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Dozens of men, some in balaclavas, got out of the cars. “They came into our back garden,” Latta recalls. “My seven-year-old daughter was quite terrified. She was in tears, saying, ‘Daddy, what’s happening, are they going to come into the house?’” This was not a scene from a war zone. It happened two weeks ago in the Cambridgeshire Fens where, for a few, terrifying hours of pandemonium, citizens were left at the mercy of intruders who robbed petrol stations, raced through villages and rampaged across fields to stage an illegal hare coursing tournament on Latta’s land. They carried out this unruly incursion with impunity, not once challenged by police.
“I counted 13 vehicles and 70 men, they took over our farm for several hours, cutting through padlocks on gates, turning the place into their playground,” says Latta, 50, who grows onions, potatoes, wheat and barley on 2,000 acres just north of Cambridge. He called the police three times that afternoon in vain. “They said they would come. We’re still waiting four days later. We’ve felt alone and very vulnerable.”
It seems as if a shadow has fallen across parts of green and pleasant England, now in the grip of a rural crime epidemic and policing crisis, the latest, menacing manifestations of which are marauding convoys of rural road warriors.
The invaders, thought to be from the Traveller community, then roared into Manea (pronounced “mainee”), a village with 2,000 inhabitants which is surrounded by fields that are a haven for thousands of overwintering Russian swans. “We’re a sleepy, one-horse, fenland town, I’ve never seen anything like it,” says Charlie Marks, a local Conservative councillor. He was walking along the pavement when he heard the screeching of wheels as the first wave of a dozen 4x4s came round the corner: “They were doing about 70mph in a 30mph zone, and sometimes up on the pavement,” he said. “They were full of guys with balaclavas and sunglasses, one of them hanging out of the window grasping a pickaxe handle.”
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