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'I'm not homophobic, I just don't like trespassers,' he says
By: John Howard
Tamworth pigs have been unleashed
Tamworth pigs have been unleashed
Farmer recruits pigs to prevent cruising
A farmer exasperated by gay men meeting on his land for sex has unleashed "a couple of dozen" Tamworth pigs as a deterrent, after years of trying other means.
In addition, he has felled a row of about thirty beech trees and erected steel fences in Roughknowles Wood, near Kenilworth, where, according to locals, cruising became popular about fifteen years ago and recently had seen as many as sixty men a day meeting for sex.
Farmer Richard Fonge, 64, of Hurst Farm, told the Coventry Telegraph:
"I'm not homophobic, I just don't like trespassers. The police didn't want to know. At its worst there were as many as ten cars parked in nearby lanes, and they'd start from about 11am."
He said he was "mightily relieved" that the pigs and his other measures had been effective in flushing out the trespassers, who, he believed, had migrated to nearby Crackley Wood, which is owned by Warwickshire County Council.
In 2005, he told the Coventry Telegraph that he had made repeated efforts to stop people, mostly men, entering the farmland, including putting up barbed wire and placing tree trunks across a parking area, after being outraged at finding a makeshift bed and used condoms.
He said he was "mightily relieved" that the pigs and his other measures had been effective in flushing out the trespassers, who, he believed, had migrated to nearby Crackley Wood, which is owned by Warwickshire County Council.
In 2005, he told the Coventry Telegraph that he had made repeated efforts to stop people, mostly men, entering the farmland, including putting up barbed wire and placing tree trunks across a parking area, after being outraged at finding a makeshift bed and used condoms.
"It's pretty abominable," he said, "I don't mind what they do in private, but they are trespassing on private land."
