John Sutton, who is Fisheries and Biodiversity Manager for Thames Region and who supplied this particular press release...
I presume (I assume he's not a journalist...) that he's aware of all the different rules which govern reporting the courts and journalistic privilege.
I'm sure he's got a contemporaneous note of what was said and a copy of the court list.
Hang on, there's a mistake in the story, ie he or whoever's put it out has the name of the village wrong.
It should be Somerford Keynes, not Somerfield.
No big dramas, you might think, but more and more organisations are doing this these days.
Say he got the name of the bloke wrong.
Say he called him Patrick Wiles and there was a Patrick Wiles who hadn't been found guilty of fishing without a rod licence, which is a criminal offence.
He'd clean up in libel damages and who would he sue, the EA..? Nope, they're not liable, the media who publish these things are.