Lambs to the slaughter - 'Frustrated' farmer sold lost flock to Walsall abattoir for £2,000 after they ate his crops
A “frustrated” farmer whose crops were eaten by a flock of lost lambs had them taken to an abattoir and slaughtered for £2,000.
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com
and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565
Christopher Thomas let out a huge sigh of relief at Telford Magistrates Court when he was told he would not be going to jail after getting 24 breeding lambs which did not belong to him killed for meat.
The court was told that 38 lambs went missing in March 2023 from David Dai Williams’s farm in Oswestry.
Thomas, who owned 25 acres of land and rented 18 at the time, had cleared his own sheep off one of his fields so he could make hay.
However, several months after Mr Williams’s lambs had gone missing, Thomas found 24 of them. They ate his crop yield.
Thomas, who was an employee of the Oswestry Livestock Market at the time, made an agreement with Severn Valley Lamb Abattoir based in Walsall on June 7, 2023 to sell the lambs for £2,081.98.
However, identification processes later revealed that the livestock he sold belonged to Mr Williams.
