Three men have appeared in court over allegations they illegally hunted in the Norfolk countryside.
Geoffrey Block, Lewis Ryland and Josh Worthington-Hayes appeared at Great Yarmouth Magistrates Court on Monday morning accused of breaches of the Hunting Act 2004.
All three face the same single charge of illegally hunting a wild mammal with a dog at Fersfield, near Diss, on January 18 this year.
Block, 59, from Church Road, Henstead near Beccles, Ryland, 23, from Beckford, Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, and Worthington-Hayes, 30, from Overbury Hall Road in Layham in Suffolk, had pleaded not guilty at an earlier hearing and were due to go on trial on Monday.
However the three-handed case was put back to March 23 next year at Great Yarmouth Magistrates' Court as a provisional date for the trial.
Their charges read: "On 18/01/2022 at Fersfield in the county of Norfolk the defendant hunted a wild mammal with a dog and that hunting was not of a class exempted by Schedule 1 to the Hunting Act 2004."
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