Four illegal fishermen hit with £1,800 in fines

Four fisherman caught without a licence have been hit with hundreds of pounds of fines and court costs.

Thomas Peter Bowden, 26, Sam Carter, 29, Sveda Laslo, 56, and Richard Maskery, 31, who are all from Macclesfield, were convicted of fishing at Gawsworth Fisheries on June 4.

Their total fines and court costs came to £1,797.

Bowden, of Aylesbury Close, and Carter, 29, of Wentworth Avenue, and admitted fishing without a licence at Macclesfield magistrates’ court on November 18.

They were fined £100 with £297 costs and £65 with £297 costs, respectively.

Laslo, of Peter Street, and Maskery, of The Crescent, were both found guilty in their absence. They were both fined £220 with £299 costs.

Gawsworth Fisheries is based at Wall Pool Lodge, on Church Lane, just north of Gawsworth Hall.

It has five lakes: Wall Pool, Wood Pool, Park Pool Coppice Pool and Spring Bank Pool, as well as its own private canal, where people can fish for bream, catfish, carp, ide, perch, roach, rudd, skimmers and tench.

Day licences cost between £7 and £12.