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Anger over livestock case
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CARLISLE-BASED livestock hailer Wm Armstrong has criticised Derbyshire Trading Standards offices following the firm's prosecution for animal welfare offences.
Last week Derby magistrates ordered the Cumbrian operator to pay fines and costs of more than £.37.000 for moving sheep illegally, failing to provide the required paperwork and compromising animal welfare. Six charges were dropped.
The prosecutions followed a surveillance operation called Operation Banjo.
Armstrong MD Jennifer Whyberd says she is disappointed that staff miscalculated travel times in March 2005 which caused animals to be on a vehicle for three hours over the 14-hour limit, but she stresses that the animals were r" not mistreated "in anyway".
She also queries how the three-day journey was calculated, arguing that the time sheep were in the market must have been included "when they are not our responsibility".
She adds:-Having spent f45.000 on an operation designed to target Armstrong, Derbyshire County Council could only prosecute us on technicalities."
Councillor Joyce Sanders, Derbyshire County Council's cabinet member for community safety services. says: "This haulier mistreated the animals by delaying the journey and giving them no food or water, and failed to complete the necmary legal documents required for moving animals."
A council spokeswoman adds that the trading standards animal health team is "currently working on five ongoing cases-.