A farmer from Ozleworth, Wotton-under-Edge, has been given a suspended prison sentence for burying sheep carcasses in a heap of rotting potatoes. At a hearing on 18 November, Stephen Redman, aged 65, of Newark Park Farm, pleaded guilty to 22 offences brought by Gloucestershire County Council’s trading standards service, relating… Read More
Animal Health
Farmer jailed for causing unnecessary suffering to sheep
A farmer from the Forest of Dean has been sent to prison for causing unnecessary suffering to a sheep which was found dead on his farm during an unannounced inspection. Keith Barber, aged 72, of Joys Green, Lydbrook, appeared at Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 11 August to be sentenced…. Read More
Cruelty to horses case – abattoir director guilty
Two businesses, F Drury & Sons Ltd, of Tockenham, Wiltshire and L J Potter Ltd of West Harptree, Somerset together with the director of both companies, Stephen Potter, were found guilty of animal welfare offences at Aldershot Magistrates Court. On 22nd October 2018, L J Potter Ltd transported a horse… Read More
Gloucestershire man guilty of animal cruelty
A car wash owner from Lydney has been convicted under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 with causing unnecessary suffering to a ram. At Cheltenham Magistrates Court on Monday 19 November Farhad Khalil Ahmed was sentenced to a 12 month community order after pleading guilty to one offence relating to the… Read More
Smallholder banned from keeping poultry and pigs for ten years
A West Dorset smallholder has been ordered to pay £530 and is banned from keeping poultry and pigs for ten years after causing unnecessary suffering to chickens following a court hearing in Weymouth. On 17 September 2018, at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court, Richard Thomas Hansford, aged 67, of Weymouth pleaded guilty… Read More
Farmer fined for Animal Health Act offence
A Wiltshire farmer has been fined for moving 1,200 cattle onto his land without a licence in defiance of TB restrictions. Timothy Johnson, of Stokes Marsh Farm, Coulston, Westbury, admitted an offence under the Animal Health Act 1981. He was personally fined £2,000 at Swindon Magistrates Court, and the company… Read More