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Ferry is a free man again
Friday 22nd May 2009, 2:15PM BST.
Shropshire countryside campaigner Otis Ferry walked free from court today, claiming he only got involved in a skirmish with hunt monitors because of the recent theft of his puppy by animal rights campaigners.
Ferry, 26, the son of Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry, was given a one-year conditional discharge for causing “fear, stress and upset” to a woman who tried to film him riding with a hunt.
Ferry, of Eaton Mascott, near Shrewsbury, was released with a £350 fine and £100 costs by a judge at Gloucester Crown Court, as he had already served four months on remand.
His defence barrister, George Cox QC, revealed that two weeks before the incident near Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, Ferry’s Jack Russell, named Tiny, had been taken by anti-hunting protesters.
Mr Cox blamed the “distressing” theft of Tiny for the fact that Ferry, huntmaster with the South Shropshire Hunt, had become involved in a “tug of war” for his victim’s car keys, which had left her bruised.
The incident happened in November 2007.
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