Noxious Animals Bill
Sir, — I am not a hunter. Nor could I condone trespassing and deer poaching. But I regarded with amazement the report (“The Press,” August 20) on the trespass section of the Noxious Animals Bill. Two
basic tenets of British justice are overturned in ihe bill with a horrifying lack of concern. In this legislation, a person is now held guiltv. whatever the circumstances, until he can prove himself innocent. Furthermore, his home is no longer his castle and his privacy may be violated by forestry officials without a warrant. It takeno great effort to imagine situations in which overzealous Forestry Service officers and runholders impose their judge and jury ac on innocent people. Surely alternative means of removing the incentives to trespass and poaching can be found without infringing the rights of the individual, and creating precedents whose disastrous long-term effects outweigh their immediate, superficial, objectives. — Yours, etc., A. R. HEATH. Fairlie. August 22, 1977. j
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