This is the moment Princess Diana's aristocrat cousin catches an energy worker who has been tearing down signs opposing a huge solar development.
The Hon Hugh Roche – a grandson of Baroness Fermoy, a friend and confidante of the late Queen Mother – embarked on a sting operation to find out who was tearing down signs opposing the controversial project.
Solar site Lime Down will cover farmland in an area of north Wiltshire approximately the size of 1,250 football pitches if approved.
In June, Mr Roche of campaign group 'Stop Lime Down' waited in the bushes to catch the man, believing he had struck before.
Armed with a long-lens camera, sandwiches and some books, Mr Roche waited in the coverage of the lower branches of a chestnut tree in the hamlet of Foxley, near Malmesbury.
He took photos of a lycra-clad Angus Craig pulling down the signs then followed him in his car and filmed a confrontation.
The video shows the cyclist riding alongside Mr Roche's passenger window.
'I'm not putting you in danger, I'm very far away from you,' says Mr Roche.
The Hon Hugh Roche with torn down signs reading 'Save Wiltshire - Stop Lime Down'
Angus Craig was caught on camera by Mr Roche, who suspected he'd torn down signs before
'I'm interested in your criminal damage. Why have you done this? Can you explain why you've done this? You seem to be very quiet.'
Mr Craig, pointing at Mr Roche, responds: 'You're driving dangerously. You should really take more control over your vehicle.'
Mr Roche says: 'I'm not driving dangerously. I'm not holding the thing, I'm a passenger.'
The incident was reported to Wiltshire Police and Mr Craig was interviewed and signed a community resolution.
He was ordered to pay £71.97 for the damaging the signs on June 30, 2024, and had to undertake an online thinking skills course.
A local scout leader who works for a green energy firm linked to the Australian backers of the development, Mr Craig later told the Daily Mail he was 'struck by the campaign against Lime Down which seems to be well-funded.'
He added: 'I think it's more about trying to whip up emotional support about vague notions of the country being taken over by solar.
'I don't quite understand why the police pursued it. There are people protesting peacefully all around the country and they at times may take down signs.
Mr Roche filmed Mr Craig during a confrontation in June last year
'NIMBY' - Not In My Back Yard - is written on posters by the Stop Lime Down campaign group
Mr Craig accuses Mr Roche of driving dangerously while filming, although Mr Roche says he is in the passenger seat
'Quite why taking down a sign in Wiltshire is noteworthy for the police is a surprise.'
Mr Craig said he was acting in a personal capacity.
As well as signs being torn down, supporters of the site regularly decorate 'Stop Lime Down' signs with the term 'NIMBY' — not in my back yard.
Mr Roche told the Mail: 'It had happened the previous two Sundays... so on the third weekend I thought, "Right, I'm going to have you, you b****r."
'I set up a little hide with a comfortable picnic seat and I had food and drink to sustain me in case it turned out to be a lengthy surveillance operation.
'I told my family what I was intending to do and they just thought I was bonkers.'
Mr Roche added that he does want to 'progress the challenge of climate change.'
Mr Roche's father, Lord Fermoy, is buried on King Charles' Sandringham Estate in Norfolk and his aunt, Frances Spencer, was Diana's mother.
Armed with books and sandwiches, Mr Roche waited for Mr Craig in the bushes with the aim of taking incriminating photos
Signs by Stop Lime Down torn down and torn in half
The force added: 'A man in his 50s was interviewed under caution and this incident is being dealt with via a community resolution.'
The industrial proposal would see 2,200 acres of four-and-a-half-metre high solar panels across several sites in Wiltshire - as well as battery storage units and cabling in the countryside.
Including the cabling, the total project acreage would amount to 7,000.
As the devastating effects of climate change worsen each year, supporters of the site argue that the bigger eye sore would be a rapidly deteriorating natural landscape at the hands of fossil fuel usage.
The plans have been backed by the Duke of Beaufort, as part of the solar complex would be housed on the Duke's 52,000-acre Badminton estate in Gloucestershire.
The Duke - dubbed 'Bunter of Badminton' is worth an estimated £300 million and is friends with King Charles, whose private residence Highgrove is nine miles away.
Stop Lime Down campaign group feel they are fighting a 'David and Goliath' battle.
One campaigner said: 'We are CANBYS - people who care about our backyard. We're not Nimbys, we're whistleblowers.
Mr Craig rides on his bike, as captured by Mr Roche's camera
Signs erected by the anti-Lime Down campaign group
'In a year of relentless campaigning people have come together: organising and paying for our signs and placards, coming up with logos, putting them out to the community.
'But the first tactic against us has been intimidation - signs going missing, being torn down and vandalised.
'These are seriously high-up, powerful people we are up against and they are just taking and transferring wealth from their neighbours.'
Lime Down's website advocates for a 'clean, predictable' energy source.
'Lime Down Solar Park will provide a significant amount of clean electricity for business and homes in the region,' it reads.
'The move towards renewables and the transition away from fossil fuels is an environmental and economic necessity.'
The campaign group have claimed the developers have 'simply enticed landowners who have no regard for their neighbours'.
A spokesperson claimed: 'There are just nine landowners benefiting from this scheme which include the Duke of Beaufort, Badminton estate, a Count and Countess, and others who reside at the Manor Houses of the villages they are affecting.
The campaign group says their placards and signs have been defaced and destroyed
A felled Stop Lime Down sign at the corner of Luckington Lane and Badminton Road
'Many have never farmed the land themselves and there will be ten tenant farmers being removed off these sites.'
A local resident, who has lived in the area for over 20 years, said the whole experience has been 'horrible' and 'divisive'.
She explained: 'People who you think are your neighbours, your friends, people you have been going to the pub with for years - have actually been going behind your back.
'Landowners have been driven by greed.'
