50p fine enables ban
A man who trapped birds in tiny cages as bait to lure others was fined 50p and ordered to pay pounds 605 costs at South East Northumberland court yesterday. A legal technicality meant a fine had to be imposed on Dennis Winter, 46, of Guide Post, Northumberland, so that magistrates could ban him from keeping birds for three years.
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