£6,000 fine for injuring sheep
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• A driver and livestock agent were fined more than £6,000 after they pleaded guilty last week to charges under the Animal Health Act 1981 which included causing suffering and injury to a sheep which was bound for slaughter.
• The RSPCA is submitting a report to Government which says it is "economic madness" for
This brings the total of fines from
37 livestock haulier prosecutions to
3 2 , 5 9 6 since March 1989 after random checks by Birmingham City Council at a Perry Barr site.
Magistrates heard that an emergency slaughtering procedure was carried out on one sheep out of a consignment of 169 which was so severely distressed a wheelbarrow was needed to unload it.
George Wilson Ritchie of Woodhead of Aberdeen, and David Elwyn Harries of Fountainbleu Farm, also of Aberdeen, were held accountable for a vehicle in which the animal accommodation comprised two or more floors. It also failed to ensure that adequate space between each floor and roof was available to allow the animal to stand properly, contravening the Transit of Animals (Road and Rail) Order 1975.