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‘Get off my land!’ Furious farmer throws punches and drives quad bike into hunt saboteurs in shocking video

This is the shocking moment a raging farmer mows down a hunt saboteur with his quad bike before unleashing flurry of punches.

Violence erupted when members of the West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs filmed the Atherstone Hunt on Saturday afternoon.

The farmer, dressed in green John Deere overalls, drives a quad bike up to three men and shouts at them to “get off my land”.

He then jumps off the bike before pushing one of the men into a ditch before turning on the other two protesters.

As the men walk backwards along the track, the man continues to drive at them with his quad bike, shouting: “You are on private property, I can do what I want.”

<em>The farmer launched a violent attack on the hunt saboteurs (SWNS)</em>
The farmer launched a violent attack on the hunt saboteurs (SWNS)

In one shocking moment, the thug ploughs his quad bike into one of the protestors, knocking him off his feet and into a ditch.

The driver is then heard boasting: “That’s one more, does anybody else want some?”

The video was filmed during the trail hunt near the Leicestershire village of Ratcliffe Culey.

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When three men reach a road by the track, a bald man points at the protesters’ camera and says, “Film me you little b**** and I’ll kill you.”

A younger man in a grey t-shirt tells the group: “F*** off d*******s, I’ll whip me k**b out in a minute for the camera if you want.”

A spokesperson from West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs said: “This was absolutely shocking violence from the Atherstone Hunt, the saboteurs were just standing peacefully filming the hunt when they were violently attacked out of the blue.

<em>The protestors were hit by the quad bike and told to get off the farmer’s land (SWNS)</em>
The protestors were hit by the quad bike and told to get off the farmer’s land (SWNS)
<em>The protestors claim the man does not actually own the land (SWNS)</em>
The protestors claim the man does not actually own the land (SWNS)

“We were just standing on the track filming the hunt and then out of nowhere this quad bike sped up to us – that person has attacked us previously.

“He just immediately started laying punches.

“When we kind of got ourselves together and tried to walk away to defuse he starts ramming us with his quadbike.

“The people hit by the quad were extremely lucky not to have been hospitalised with serious injuries.

“The one person could have been seriously injured, he went at him with speed – if the quad bike carried on it could have landed on him in the ditch.

<em>Punches were thrown during the shocking encounter (SWNS)</em>
Punches were thrown during the shocking encounter (SWNS)
<em>The whole shocking incident was caught on camera by protestors (SWNS)</em>
The whole shocking incident was caught on camera by protestors (SWNS)

“The guy who attacked us has been at hunts before and has attacked us previously.”

The spokesperson claims they checked the Land Registry and the farmer is not actually the landowner.

West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs had previously filmed the same hunt supporter running at saboteurs with an iron bar, but no further action was taken by police.

Leicestershire Police have been informed about the latest incident.