Campania man faces court accused of capture and death of Australian fur seal

A man has again appeared in Hobart Magistrates Court on numerous charges, including the alleged capture and death of a fur seal. What will happen next.

Magistrates Court in Hobart CBD. GV / File / Generic Picture: RICHARD JUPE

A man accused of allegedly shooting and killing an Australian fur seal has entered pleas of not guilty to 25 charges in a Hobart Court on Wednesday.

Campania man James Danny Young, 24, appeared before Magistrate Chris Webster in the Hobart Magistrates Court on a total of 29 counts, including one count each of an act resulting in the death, deformity or serious disablement of an animal, using a firearm at night for the purpose of taking any form of protected wildlife, taking protected wildlife and possessing wildlife taken against regulations.

An Australian fur seal in the Launceston suburb of Newstead.

These relate to the alleged capture of an Australian fur seal – a protected species- from the Richmond River in August last year and its eventual death in June this year at a Campania property.

Mr Young is also charged with three counts of stealing and two counts of burglary from January and May this year, alleged to have taken a box trailer and goods to the value of $2240 in separate events from a TasWater property in Richmond.

The alleged offences span a period of 16 months.

Mr Young previously appeared at the Hobart Magistrates Court where he entered pleas of not guilty to all 29 counts, but in his latest appearance pleaded not guilty to only 24 counts.

Mr Webster bailed Mr Young to appear in court on all matters on December 13.

Originally published as Campania man faces court accused of capture and death of Australian fur seal