Four arrested following reports of hare coursing
Published: 00:00, 02 February 2011
| Updated: 12:08, 21 January 2015
Alert from local gamekeeper results in hare coursing arrests
FOUR men have been arrested following a report of hare coursing and vehicle theft in Wantage Road, Brightwalton, on Monday (January 31).
Thames Valley Police were alerted to a report of illegal coursing by a local gamekeeper at around 4pm.
Officers attended and, with the help of the helicopter and dogs unit, four men were arrested in near East Ilsley.
A 45-year-old man and a 26-year-old man from Staines, a 30-year-old man from Slough and a 23-year-old man from Maidenhead were arrested on suspicion of theft of a vehicle and hare-coursing and are currently being held in police custody.
