Ravers who swarm onto land and buildings in isolated rural areas led Jeremy Mason to warn in Friday's Lynn News that it may only be a matter of time before a farmer snaps and hurts someone.

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Shades of Tony Martin. Remember him; the Emneth Hungate farmer fed up with what he considered a lack of police action against trespassers on his land. He shot two of them, killing one.

An Englishman's home is his castle, and I expect the same goes for a farmer and his land. Mr Mason told how 800 revellers descended on his property for an illegal New Year's Eve party, complete with burger vans, and left behind a mountain of filth.

Van loads of police, and others in a helicopter, arrived also, but did not break up the party which raved on until 4am.

The police say their hands are tied because the event did not fit the criteria to be labelled a rave – an open-air event causing serious distress to locals.

But it sounds from what Mr Mason says that some laws must have been broken. He described a wild party involving 800 people, many high on drink or drugs, taking place just yards from farmworkers' homes.

He also said the trespassers danced on 60ft-high barn roofs and pulled barriers, installed to stop vehicles, out of the ground. That sounds to me like behaviour police could take action over.

Farmers have shotguns, and some of my acquaintance would not be beyond putting a shell or two through the PA system at an illegal rave on their land.

It's to be hoped a shell or two doesn't go through the ravers themselves and that's why the police need to take swift action at the next opportunity. Ravers need to learn a lesson, not farmers.