Royal Agricultural University student strapped dead stag to Land Rover

Students at a prestigious university dubbed ‘Oxbridge for farmers’ strapped a dead stag to the bonnet of a car or truck all through a charity rally, MailOnline can reveal. 

A picture from the fundraising celebration at the Royal Agricultural College (RAU) in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, displays the lifeless animal’s head and cover strapped to the bonnet of a Land Rover with yellow string.

It comes following an additional photograph from the event confirmed a lifeless fox strapped to the roof of a motor vehicle with each individual leg secured by blue rope.   

The university, whose patron is Charles III, is known for attracting the scions of rich farmers and counts Captain Mark Phillips, Princess Anne‘s previous spouse, amid its alumni.

A image from the fundraising celebration displays the stag’s head and disguise strapped to the bonnet of a Land Rover 

A photograph from the fundraising occasion at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) in Cirencester yesterday displays the lifeless fox sprawled on the vehicle’s roof

Founded in 1845 as the first agricultural college in the English-talking environment, the RAU recently ranked amongst the leading-ten universities in the state for scholar experience.

But its ‘Hooray Henry’ pupils have also acquired a standing for rowdy conduct and a major ingesting lifestyle. 

Referring to yesterday’s incident, a supply advised MailOnline: ‘Given it’s a college with the motto ”caring for the fields and the beasts”, it’s a reasonably crystal clear (if not surprising) breach of their meant ethos. 

‘The RAU is whole of entitled outdated folks who are resistant to any sort of alter – most are so wealthy they feel they can get away with nearly anything.’ 

The college claimed it condemned the students’ behaviour and had contacted Gloucestershire Constabulary for assistance with determining the perpetrators.  

The drive explained it experienced spoken to the learners on the day and offered them ‘words of advice’ but no criminal offense experienced been fully commited.  

Wild foxes are regarded as vermin, so though it is from the legislation to hunt them with dogs it is not illegal to shoot them humanely with a registered firearm. 

The offence of outraging general public decency concerns behaving in a way that is ‘lewd, obscene or disgusting’ in the existence of at least two customers of the community. 

Founded in 1845 as the initially agricultural university in the English-talking earth, the RAU not too long ago rated between the best ten universities in the country for pupil experience 

Students from the Royal Agricultural College were being in attendance final week for the duration of a check out to a dairy farm by the Countess of Wessex.

Sophie, 58, received caught in bottle-feeding a youthful calf milk in the course of her pay a visit to to Smerrill Dairy in Cirencester.    

A Royal Agricultural University spokesman explained to MailOnline: ‘We condemn this behaviour. 

‘As shortly as we have been manufactured aware of this incident, the specifics were being passed to our Student Providers group and an investigation was started off immediately.

‘We have spoken to the Police and to our Students’ Union to establish those people concerned. 

‘We will unquestionably not tolerate this sort of behaviour and will deal with people included appropriately in gentle of the severity of the incident.

‘The behaviours on show by a pick out minority of our learners through this year’s RAG Rally go towards the University’s core values. 

‘The severity of all those incidents has led to the final decision by the College to withdraw help for the Rally in future several years.’

Gloucestershire Law enforcement reported: ‘We are aware of the incident and have been in call with the Royal Agricultural University.

‘Officers ended up existing at the rally and spoke to learners at the time with words of assistance. No criminal offences are believed to have taken spot at this time.’ 

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