This week, while TBC members and others are enjoying the barn and short-eared owls on North Tees marshes, a gamekeeper was convicted of fatally shooting two short-eared owls in Cumbria (and the evidence suggests that he had also been luring and killing other raptors). Given the options available in law, the sentence seems quite derisory . . .
https://www.rspb.org.uk/about-the-rspb/about-us/media-centre/press-releases/gamekeeper-guilty-of-shooting-two-owls-in-cumbria/#zZKbV1do3YEZwFtQ.99