HUNT saboteurs have made no formal complaint to police about an alleged assault on a hunt saboteur during a recent meeting of the Ledbury Hunt.

This is despite releasing a video showing an apparent scuffle at Castlemorton on Wednesday December 28.

A spokesman for the hunt saboteurs was asked again this week, for the second time by the Ledbury Reporter, if they had reported the incident to the police, but no response was forthcoming by the time of going to press.

Meanwhile, police have revealed that, in connection with the alleged incident, "a man is due to be interviewed voluntarily under caution".

A police spokesman added: "Police have not at this time received any reports from a complainant."

The Ledbury Hunt say the man involved in an apparent scuffle with hunt saboteurs at Castlemorton was "neither employed by the Hunt and was not acting in its behalf".

The Hunt has contacted the police, and it has also launched an internal investigation.

A short video clip, showing an apparent scuffle, was published widely on social media, after the Ledbury Hunt was out on Wednesday, December 28.

But Ledbury Hunt spokesman Donald Haden said of the incident: "The Ledbury Hunt are carrying out an internal investigation to establish, as far as possible, the true facts.

"All hunting activities are conducted within the law and the Hunt wish to emphasise that the person who appears to have been involved in a fracas, and who is described by the Bristol Hunt

Saboteurs as a terrier man, is not employed by the Hunt and was not at any time acting on its behalf."

Anyone with information, concerning the alleged incident, should call the police on the 101 number, quoting reference 223s of 291216.