The
Queen guitarist and animal rights campaigner has his appeal against High Court
ruling rejected
8:58AM
GMT 27 Oct 2015
Queen guitarist Brian May has failed in his bid for a judicial
review into the legalities of badger culling.
The
animal rights campaigner has had his appeal against a High Court ruling that
turned down his first judicial review request rejected.
May
had persued legal action after badger culls began in Dorset and continued
in Somerset and Gloucestershire.
May's
Save Me Trust said the government went against its own culling policy and would
explore other legal challenges.
Brian
May brings Team Badger to London to try and save Britain's badgers Photo:
Eddie Mulholland/The Telegraph
The
government and the National Farmers' Union said culling badgers would curb
tuberculosis in cattle.
In
August the news of an extended badger cull prompted the trust to lodge an
unsuccessful request for a judicial review in September.
"This
awful policy must be put to bed now, in favour of a policy that really will address
the TB problem in cattle."
The
trust accused the government of going against Department for Environment, Food
& Rural Affairs (Defra) policy, published in 2011, "which promised no
culling would take place if the incidence of bTB was falling in a specific
place".
Save
Me Trust boss Anne Brummer said Defra figures showed the incidence of bovine TB
was declining in both Dorset and Gloucestershire three years before the culls
began.
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