Pheasant shooting ‘morally wrong’

Saturday 18th March 2006, 12:00AM GMT.

A WOMAN distressed by the shooting of wildlife taking place on a nearby farm in St Ouen is asking if others living nearby are being affected in the same way.

Pilot Miranda Collett, who lives with her husband Mike on Chemin du Moulin, said she finds noise from the shooting of pheasants, rabbits and pigeons on the farm owned by Arthur Le Blancq, of Spion Kop, a great disturbance.

In her view, the practice is ‘morally wrong’.

But Mr Le Blancq said he and those shooting on his land, who all have licences, were doing nothing illegal.

‘We have shot all our lives and are following firearms requirements,’ he said.

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