Man, 27, denies theft of castle kestrel chicks

A MAN will face trial this autumn after denying stealing three kestrel chicks from a window ledge at a popular visitor attraction.
By The Newsroom
Published 29th Aug 2013, 01:01 BST

Jason Frost, 27, from Mexborough, is accused of criminal damage and taking the nesting kestrels from an upper window ledge at Conisbrough Castle, near Doncaster, on June 13.

He made his first appearance at Doncaster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday where he denied both charges, the Crown Prosecution Service said yesterday. Frost will now face trial at the same court on November 18.

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South Yorkshire Police and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds were alerted to the theft of the kestrels, a protected species, in June.

The chicks and their mother became a popular attraction with visitors at the English Heritage- owned castle after they began to nest there earlier in the year.