Hunt saboteurs have released footage they say shows the moment a farmer chased them off his land by driving his tractor at them.
The video also allegedly shows him spraying them with slurry as they attempted to get past his tractor on a public road and get away.
Members of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln Hunt ‘Sabs’ say they were monitoring a hunt in Ashover, Chesterfield, when they followed it across a field toward an abandoned quarry.
A member of the Sheffield Sabs group said the tractor driver narrowly missed members of their team on two occasions.
One of the occasions caught on camera shows the farmer attempting to ram the saboteurs away while shouting: ‘Get off my field, go!’
Later on in the footage, by the time the group returned to the road, they bumped into the same tractor driver, who sprayed slurry at them as they attempted to get away.
The saboteurs say they were ‘monitoring the actions’ of a hunt taking place on November 22 when the incident happened.
One member said: ‘We were monitoring the hunt, making sure they were obeying law and not hunting foxes.
‘The hunt went into an abandoned quarry, and the sabs followed across a field. A man was driving a tractor in the field with a muck spreader on the back.
‘The field bordered the road. We could see the hunt in the quarry, so we tried to cut across the field to get to where they were, to see what they were doing.
‘The farmer drove at us. There were four in our group and he was driving towards one of us, then another.’
She added the group were ‘worried what might happen’.
After returning to the road to follow the hunt, the saboteurs were blocked the second time.
The saboteur added: ‘We were on the road and he was blocking it to stop us coming up. Then he sprayed us.
‘He spread muck on a public road and on people on a public road. It was cold and wet and smelly and really unhygienic.’
The groups have not reported the incident to the police but are still considering doing so, they said.
Some who viewed the video online said they felt the sabs should not have been on the farmer’s land in the first place.
Deborah Barron said: ‘Where in the video does it show the farmer being a hunt supporter?
‘To me it shows someone trying to remove trespassers.’
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