Hare coursers are openly selling dogs and organising illegal meets on Facebook groups where they share photos showing piles of corpses and boast of racking up ‘hundreds of kills’, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The bloodsport, in which dogs earn points both for a kill and for how often they make their prey twist and turn during the chase, was banned in the UK under the 2005 Hunting Act.
But police say the number of illegal events has surged tenfold in recent years – driven by the involvement of organised crime gangs who invade farms and intimidate their owners before unleashing lurchers
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