Regretfully, there are hunts that are blatantly disregarding the Hunting Act (and I am not saying that was the case with this hunt on this occasion).
Equally regretfully, various police forces have made it clear that they do not have the resources to prosecute hunts for breaches of the HA and have no intention of checking hunts for compliance with this law.
Under these circumstances, it is perhaps understandable that those who feel passionately that hunting is wrong (and I am not amongst them) might consider that they need to take on the role of collecting evidence of possible wrongdoing.
It seems that the deceased was equally reluctant to rely on the police and CAA to resolve the complaint from a week or so previously, and, rather like the anti-hunt people, decided to take direct action.
Irrespective of who was legally to blame, an unpleasant outcome was inevitable from such an encounter. It's just tragic that this encounter ended in someone's death, rather than just a few sharp words or a bit of fisticuffs.
VP