Foxhound chief must wait until July to appeal

The head of the national foxhounds group must wait until July to appeal against his conviction for illegally offering advice on how to run hunts in online lectures. Mark Hankinson, 61, was recorded on two training webinars for about 100 hunts in which he acknowledged trail hunting was a cover for the chasing and killing of foxes. Trail hunting was devised in the wake of the Hunting Act to legally replicate the outlawed sport as closely as possible. Hankinson, the…