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13/04/2016
Farmer Receives Suspended Sentence For Animal Cruelty Charges
A Co Antrim farmer has been convicted of a number of animal cruelty charges.
46-year-old James Steele from Glenavy, Co Antrim, was sentenced to five months imprisonment suspended for three years at Antrim Magistrates' Court.
He was sentenced on six charges of causing unnecessary suffering to bovine animals, two charges of failure to dispose of animal carcases, one charge of failure to comply with an animal by-product requirement and one charge of using an ear tag to identify an animal which had already been used for identifying another animal.
Mr Steele also received a two-month sentence suspended for three years in respect of the cattle ear tag charge.
The sentences will run concurrently.
A deprivation order with immediate effect for five years was granted under the Welfare of Animals Act (NI) 2011.
(CD/JP)
46-year-old James Steele from Glenavy, Co Antrim, was sentenced to five months imprisonment suspended for three years at Antrim Magistrates' Court.
He was sentenced on six charges of causing unnecessary suffering to bovine animals, two charges of failure to dispose of animal carcases, one charge of failure to comply with an animal by-product requirement and one charge of using an ear tag to identify an animal which had already been used for identifying another animal.
Mr Steele also received a two-month sentence suspended for three years in respect of the cattle ear tag charge.
The sentences will run concurrently.
A deprivation order with immediate effect for five years was granted under the Welfare of Animals Act (NI) 2011.
(CD/JP)
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