article_snippet.sent: In 2012, the RSPCA spent £327,000 prosecuting the Heythrop Hunt, in Oxfordshire.
article_snippet.sent: David Cameron has ridden with the Heythrop Hunt.
article_snippet.sent: Three defendants were accused of interfering with a badger sett while assisting the Cheshire Hunt in February 2012.
article_snippet.sent: Defendants’ costs of up to £10,000 paid by the taxpayer.
article_snippet.sent: In April 2013, charity accused two defendants in the Heythrop Hunt of disturbing a badger sett but ten months later offered ‘no evidence’.
article_snippet.sent: In November 2013, case against Will Goffe, 33, of the Heythrop Hunt, near Malvern in Worcestershire, was dropped due to insufficient evidence.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Bryer's solicitor, Jamie Foster, claimed that Mr Bryer's case had been flawed from the start.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Bryer's said the laying of a trail, or a scent which the hounds can track rather than chasing a live animal, showed that the Cattistock had behaved responsibly, not recklessly as the prosecution claimed.
article_snippet.sent: The Society has always faced a fundamental difficulty acting as a prosecutor while also being a political campaigning organisation.
highlights_snippet.sent: A total of £22.5million was spent on animal welfare cases last year alone .
  