A CRUEL golfer has been fined £750 and banned from his local club after battering a fox with his driving iron – because it was trying to steal his chocolate biscuit.
Donald Forbes became enraged when he caught the animal trying to snatch the Tunnocks Wafer from his golf bag.
The 55-year-old ran at the fox screaming and struck it on the head with his club.
Forbes, a self-employed contract consultant in the oil industry, lives close to the plush Peterculter Golf Club, in Aberdeen, where he’s been a member for 12 years.
On September 10 last year he was playing with friend Graham Duthie, also 55, when they saw the fox.
Forbes, told the city’s sheriff court: “The fox was attacking my bag.
“It was an instinctive reaction. I felt threatened and angry.”
He said that another player then found the severely injured fox and killed it using a wooden chair.
Forbes was suspended from the golf club.
John Robins of Animal Concern said: “Golf is an expensive game and I would imagine this is not a large sum of money for this man. He should have been made an example of.”
Donald Forbes became enraged when he caught the animal trying to snatch the Tunnocks Wafer from his golf bag.
The 55-year-old ran at the fox screaming and struck it on the head with his club.
Forbes, a self-employed contract consultant in the oil industry, lives close to the plush Peterculter Golf Club, in Aberdeen, where he’s been a member for 12 years.
On September 10 last year he was playing with friend Graham Duthie, also 55, when they saw the fox.
Forbes, told the city’s sheriff court: “The fox was attacking my bag.
“It was an instinctive reaction. I felt threatened and angry.”
He said that another player then found the severely injured fox and killed it using a wooden chair.
Forbes was suspended from the golf club.
John Robins of Animal Concern said: “Golf is an expensive game and I would imagine this is not a large sum of money for this man. He should have been made an example of.”
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