Claire Bellamy, 51, led a pack of around 17 hounds in a wooded area between the villages of Houston, Renfrewshire, and Kilmacolm in Inverclyde in January 2025.
Permission for a legal hunt had been given by NatureScot, the Scottish Government body responsible for all aspects of nature, wildlife management and landscape.
However, Bellamy allowed her dogs to get the scent and then chase a fox in an open field which lay outwith the permitted boundaries as specified within the licence granted by Nature Scot.
The terms of the license were also not complied with as the dogs were not sufficiently under control.
At Paisley Sheriff Court, she was banned from owning or keeping dogs for 10 years after being found guilty at trial for an offence under the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023.
She was also made subject of a community payback order and ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work within a period of 12 months.
Participants in the hunt gathered near to Kirkton Farm and began moving towards Kirkton Woods.
Their activities were filmed by anti-hunt activists and the footage showed the hunt had gone into undesignated areas.
Iain Batho, who leads on wildlife crime for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), said:
“The law in Scotland allows Nature Scot to grant licences which allow individuals to hunt for foxes using two or more dogs. Such licenses can only be granted for limited, prescribed purposes.
"The licenses granted will ordinarily have specific terms which are designed to ensure the hunt is limited to its prescribed purposes and to prevent foxes suffering unnecessarily.
“It is the duty of those who have been granted such licenses to strictly adhere to the terms of the license. On this occasion Claire Bellamy failed to do so and has now faced the consequences of that.
“The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service takes illegal fox hunting seriously and action will be taken by specialist prosecutors in the COPFS Wildlife and Environmental Crime Unit, where there is sufficient evidence and where it is in the public interest to do so.”