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A GAMEKEEPER and a land agent are facing trial after a raid by Royal
Society for the Protection of Birds investigators and North Yorkshire
Police on a remote Yorkshire Dales farm uncovered lethal poisons.
Gamekeeper James Freeman, of Moor House Farm, Lofthouse, Nidderdale
and agent Simon Clowes, of Lawkland Green House, Lawkland, Austwick,
near Settle, appeared before magistrates at Harrogate on Monday to
answer a total of 13 charges.
They heard prosecutor David Tucker argue that the allegations were so
serious, involving poisons which were potentially lethal and which
could have led to an accident involving multiple deaths that they
should go before a crown court judge.
Freeman, 56, faces nine charges and did not enter pleas to any of
them. Four claim that at his farm on May 22 last year he stored
pesticides, with active ingredients including sodium cyanide and
aluminium phosphide without approval while a fifth alleges use of a
sodium cyanide-based pesticide during 2006.