BOTLEY teenager Edward Goddard has been fined for poaching.
Goddard, 18, of Winchester Street, entered Manor Farm, Bramdean, near Alresford, with a catapult and stones at night on December 12 with the intention of taking game.
Magistrates in Basingstoke fined him £165 and ordered he pay a £20 victim surcharge and costs of £120. The catapult was forfeited.
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