The RSPCA is investigating after Jolyon Maugham says he killed a fox that got caught up in protective netting near chickens.
A prominent lawyer and campaigner has caused upset on social media by tweeting that he killed a fox with a baseball bat.
Jolyon Maugham QC, whose Good Law Project has brought legal challenges to Brexit, posted about the incident.A fox caught up in a trap or a snare must be humanely killed, guidelines state Mr Maugham, who has about 179,000 followers on Twitter, later apologised"to those upset by my tweet". In the offending post, shortly after 8am, he said:"Already this morning I have killed a fox with a baseball bat. How's your day going?"He also revealed in a subsequent tweet that he was wearing his wife's silk kimono at the time.
Other Twitter users responded with anger about what he had done and accusing him of bragging about his actions.
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