Yahoo News Vinnie Jones claims he was hacked and denies posting picture of 100 dead foxes
Vinnie Jones infuriated animal rights campaigners yesterday (Monday) after a picture appeared on his Twitter feed showing 100 massacred foxes, with the caption: “A real night lamping #foxes anyone beat this?”
A well-known advocate of hunting, Jones has previously waxed lyrical about his love for the sport and confessed that one of his favourite past times is ‘lamping’ foxes (legally hunting with a registered gun at night).
Peta UK director Elisa Allen condemned the picture as a ‘fox massacre’ and said: “If people hunted down panicked dogs for fun, we would call it what it is: cruelty to animals.”
However the image, which shows rows of slain foxes in a village court yard, was deleted on Sunday night and the Lock Stock actor, 52, has insisted that he has never seen the picture before and that he has been a victim of hacking – probably because of his love for hunting.
He told the Mail Online: “It is absolutely nothing to do with me whatsoever.
“I’d never seen the picture until this morning when I’d seen people going mad on Twitter saying I had done this and that. I was shaking, I’d never seen the picture, and I’d never seen that many foxes.
“That is an attack on me. I don’t know how it has got on there.”
After doing some research, Jones claimed online that the picture had been taken in 2012 in Australia and he apologised to his followers.
I am very sorry for the distress this HACKED picture has caused everyone i DONOT condone it in anyway
— Vinnie Jones (@VinnieJones65) July 24, 2017
He told ShootingUK earlier this month:“I love pigeon shooting — building the hide, putting the decoys out.
“Lamping is probably my favourite. I’ve spent a lot of money on customising my Land Rover for lamping. If the farmer has a fox problem I love going out and dealing with it for him.”
