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Police Wildlife Liaison Officer guilty of wildlife crime
Posted: 30 June 2003 - Source: Sunderland Echo
Two gamekeepers from the Worksop Manor Estate, Nottinghamshire pleaded guilty at Newark magistrates to the use of a cage trap baited with a live pigeon in order to take birds of prey.
The head keeper Michael Mather was fined £440 with £560 costs while the underkeeper. Mark Wardle a recently retired Nottinghamshire Police Wildlife Liaison Officer was fined £600 with £840 costs.