Derbyshire man caught on camera stealing peregrine falcon eggs
A Derbyshire man who was caught on camera stealing peregrine falcon eggs has been jailed for 18 weeks.
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The footage was taken in April 2023 from a hidden camera put in place at a quarry near Bolsover by an investigations team at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Eggs from wild peregrine falcons can sells for tens of thousands of pounds overseas.
Christopher Wheeldon, from Darley Dale, was seen abseiling down a cliff and stealing three eggs. He admitted to disturbing the nest and was sentenced in January.
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15 comments
Barsteward. And so greedy he couldn’t even leave one egg. This is how this bird became extinct in England already.
18 weeks?! for being complicit in extinction?!
Amazing what people will do to secure their next hit…
English doing what English do
He should be locked up for years! He Will do it again! That poor mom falcon!😢
Should have been 18 months, 18 weeks and he is right back at it
take an egg from a peregrine falcon and it's stealing, take an egg from a chicken and it's capitalism. what is this avian class war?
Theres worse things that are happening in England at the moment tbf 😂
I wonder what happened to the eggs. Did they survive the abduction?
Only 18 week?!
All the work to get him on film for 18 weeks?😵🙄🤦
should be made to do community service for 5 years. something meaningful, not a few weeks on the naughty step ffs.
Hate thieves of all kinds, shapes, motivation. Total lack of any moral compass. Disruptors of societal function. Bah.
Cool
Eighteen weeks he will possibly serve three months of his sentence what a WASTE of time there's NO deterrent the UK justice system is WEAK all these judges need to be SACKED