Published:
1:42 PM January 22, 2021
The damaged caused to the farmer s field in Fowlmere, left and the moment the hare-coursing trio were caught by police.
- Credit: Cambs police
A trio of hare coursers have been sentenced after they caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage to a Fowlmere farmer’s crops, while attempting to make off from police.
Jimmy Cole, aged 43, Chase Loveridge, 36, and 20-year-old Levi Cole, were spotted driving a silver Land Rover across a field near Cambridge Road in Fowlmere, at about 12 noon on 24 September last year.
Officers from the force’s Rural Crime Action Team were able to quickly box the car in near the junction with the A505.
By T&A Reporters
The junction of the A14 and the M11 near Cambridge, where Richard Taylor was spotted by police last month. Inset, the drugs wipe test. Pictures: Google Maps/Cambridgeshire Police. A Bradford drug driver who failed a roadside test but then refused to provide a specimen for analysis at a police station has been jailed in Cambridge. Richard Taylor, 49, was spotted by an eagle-eyed officer driving a Volkswagen Golf on the A14 westbound where it meets the M11. The officer noticed Taylor due to his manner of driving at just before 1.30pm on November 4. The officer followed Taylor in a marked police car and he was stopped in a lay-by about 15 miles later.
Martinez Sanchez gave a roadside breath test reading of 155 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml of breath.
He was arrested and taken to Thorpe Wood Police Station, where he provided a further reading of 124 microgrammes of alcohol.
Martinez Sanchez was remanded in custody and appeared at Cambridge Magistrates’ Court on December 8 where he was handed eight weeks in prison.
He was also disqualified from driving for 34 months.
PC Shaz Ali, who investigated, said: “Having witnessed it first hand, the defendant’s driving on Monday morning was almost beyond belief.
“The consequences of his actions could have been so much worse had he not been spotted.