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Villagers are being terrorised by poachers who are leaving animal corpses strewn across their streets and pavements.
In the latest incident, dozens of bloodied hares were dumped at the entrance to the community shop in Broughton, Hampshire.
The perpetrators even impaled a barn owl and kestrel on the shop’s door handles and rubbed animal blood and guts over the windows on Thursday night.
Locals believe the displays are a deeply sinister ‘message’ from the poachers to discourage them from interfering in their activities.
Other wild creatures including rabbits, pheasants, deer and birds of prey have been dumped in surrounding roads and fields in recent weeks, including a grim collection of 27 rabbits outside a primary school.
