ANTI-HUNT activists claim they have filmed huntsmen trespassing on Sir Paul McCartney’s deer sanctuary.
The footage was taken by the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS), which members claim shows the Quantock Staghounds on Sir Paul’s estate in St John’s Wood, near Bampton in Somerset.
The hunters appear to chase a herd of deer across land owned by LACS, and then use two hounds to flush a stag out of St John’s Wood. Sir Paul bought the 87-acre pine wood with his late wife, Linda McCartney, in 1991, to protect the wild deer by providing an area where the staghounds could not enter.
Paul Tillsley and Graham Hyde, monitors for LACS, witnessed and recorded the alleged incident.
Mr Tillsley told the Western Daily Press: “From our point of view, it was clear that the hunt was pursuing the stag. But more clear-cut was the trespass that occurred in St John’s Wood.”
Avon and Somerset Police said they had not received any reports of illegal activity.
