A Welshman was convicted for attending an illegal hare coursing event and given a three-year ban on accessing farmland and using sighthound dogs near his home.

A 28-year-old man from Walesby, Benjamin Lee, was convicted on February 26, 2026, for attending a hare coursing event in Cambridgeshire on January 25, 2025. The case emerged from a multi-force operation targeting illegal coursing across several Cambridgeshire towns, resulting in 43 arrests and 25 charges for 39 offences. Lee received a three-year Criminal Behaviour Order restricting access to private and agricultural land without permission, limiting vehicle use with sighthound dogs to within five miles of his home unless for vet appointments or travel to his own land—requiring documentation—and was ordered to pay £1,000 in compensation to affected landowners.