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Gamekeeper who used live pigeons as bait escapes prison

A gamekeeper who used live pigeons in cages as bait and laced the carcasses of pheasants with deadly poisons to lure birds of prey yesterday avoided a jail sentence.

A gamekeeper who used live pigeons in cages as bait and laced the carcasses of pheasants with deadly poisons to lure birds of prey yesterday avoided a jail sentence.