Four further arrests in hare coursing probe

Cambridgeshire Police A rear view of three police vans lined up, one behind the other, on a concrete driveway, with a mobile home to the rightCambridgeshire Police
Three of the arrests were made in Wellingborough on Wednesday

A further four people have been arrested on suspicion of violent disorder and hare coursing in Cambridgeshire, bringing the total number of arrests to 20.

Residents reported dozens of people wearing balaclavas driving 4x4s through Fenland villages and causing widespread damage to farmland on 25 January.

A 22-year-old man from Stourport-on-Severn, in Worcestershire, was arrested in Worcester on Tuesday, and three men, aged 18, 42 and 47 were arrested at their homes in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire on Wednesday.

All four remain in police custody in Peterborough. Sixteen men are on police bail until May.

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