THIS is the shocking moment a two-time world boxing champ tells a cop “f*** your mother” while being arrested.
Billy Joe Saunders launched into a foul-mouthed tirade at police after he was snared along with three pals for hare-coursing.
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The 36-year-old, who beat Chris Eubank Jr in 2014, asked officers: “You’re arresting us? Let’s go.”
He then walks away before turning to a female officer, saying: “What one [police car] am I going in love?”
When the officers tell Saunders to come with them, he flies into a rage, spitting: “Put [sic] your hand off me.”
He then tells them: “We’ve been nice to you, we ain’t done nothing.”
The boxer also calls one of the officers a “c***” before raging: “F*** your mother.
“Go bend your mum over and f*** her you c***.”
While the officers explain to the group that hare coursing is illegal, Saunders turns to another cop, and says: “Shut your mouth you pr***. F*** you, f*** you, f*** you, f*** you.”
The thug also threatened to use a catapult to attack the police cars during the arrest in Lincolnshire last October.
He has since pleaded guilty to trespassing with dogs and being equipped for searching for or pursuing hares with dogs.
Pals Maurice Smith, 36, Noah Stanley, 54, and his son Noah Jr, 26, admitted the same offence.
A court heard police were scrambled after passers-by reported seeing the group covered in mud and acting suspiciously.
They discovered six people crammed inside a Mercedes Benz -including two children aged 13 and 16 – and two lurcher-type dogs.
A catapult with ball bearing and a locking knife were also found under the rear seat, which belonged to the children.
Attempts had also been made to conceal the rear number plates with mud.
Police seized Saunders’ mobile phone, which contained videos of the men hare coursing.
He was ordered to pay £3,375 compensation for kennel and welfare fees, along with court costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £114.
Saunders was banned from keeping dogs for five years and ordered to do 60 hours of unpaid work.
He was cleared of using threatening or abusive words and dangerously driving a Mercedes Benz ML.
Smith was ordered to pay £3,375 compensation and kennel fees as well as £85 court costs and £114 victim surcharge.
The Stanley’s were banned from keeping dogs for five years and ordered to do 60 hours of unpaid work.
All four were also slapped with Criminal Behaviour Orders for five years.
The order bans them from entering Lincolnshire and four other counties between July 31 and April 30, when hare coursing is most prevalent.
PC Chris Windsor-Beck, from the Lincolnshire Police Rural Crime Action Team (RCAT), said: “They were all travelling from the south of the country and were unable to provide any good reason why they were in Lincolnshire at that time of the day with sight hounds used for hunting, catapults and a vehicle used in off-road driving.
“We have had reports that catapults and ball bearings have been used in recent months in illegal hunting, as well as against landowners who have confronted poachers on their land, so this was a really concerning find.
“When we started digging further into what had happened this included looking at the contents on their phones, and hare coursing videos were found on Billy Joe Saunders’ device which had been taken on the date of the incident reported.
“My concerns over the catapult were not without reasons; when Saunders was talking to officers, he made reference to catapulting the windows of our car instead of stopping next time.
“We had the hard evidence that they were hare coursing, so there was nothing to do but accept guilt.”
Saunders won world championships in two weight classes, including the WBO middleweight title from 2015 to 2018 and the WBO super-middleweight title from 2019 to 2021.
At a regional level, he held the European, British, and Commonwealth middleweight titles between 2012 and 2015.
Saunders represented Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics as an amateur, reaching the second round of the welterweight bracket.
He was due for a spectacular comeback this year after a four-year break and met with promoter Frank Warren in May.
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SWNSHe pleaded guilty to trespassing with dogs and being equipped for searching for or pursuing hares with dogs[/caption]
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