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A haulier has been fined £4.000 after being found guilty of moving sheep without the correct documentation.
David Ashley Holmes (trading as DA Holmes, of Wingerworth, Chesterfield) was the operator of a threedecked articulated vehicle stopped as part of a random vehicle check in June 1998, Birmingham magistrates were told. The load of 256 sheep from Taunton was bound for markets in Birmingham and Derby.
Holmes pleaded not guilty to the charges and represented himself.
He was fined £2,000 for failing to ensure an animal transport certificate had been made out—an offence under the Welfare of Animals (Transport) Order 1997.
He was fined a further £2,000 for failing to ensure that a sheep identification document was on board.
Holmes was ordered to pay costs of £1,035. A third charge, concerning the driver's lack of knowledge about the load, was dropped.
In January. Holmes was disqualified from keeping sheep for three years, ordered to undertake 150 hours of community service and ordered to pay costs of £3,000 in a case brought by Derbyshire County Council.