Gamekeeper fined for banned poison

May 26 2011

A shoot manager on a well-known Highland estate has been fined £3,300 for possessing more than 10kg of a highly toxic banned pesticide.

Dean Barr, 44, was caught with Carbofuran - made illegal in the UK in 2001 - following a police investigation which led them to search the Skibo Estate in east Sutherland.

A spokesman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) said Barr had enough of the pesticide to poison the entire Scottish population of birds of prey six times over.