On Sept. 17, the case brought by the Crown Prosecution Service against John Harrison, huntsman of the Ullswater Foxhounds, collapsed. The charges were in relation to the illegal hunting of foxes in November 2008.

Although employees of animal rights organizations had filmed the Lakeland foot pack and their huntsman out hunting on the open fell, the District Judge at Penrith Magistrates Court ruled that there was no evidence that, “an identifiable mammal had been pursued at any stage.”