Farmer Jailed After Abandoning More than 450 Animals in 'Squalor'

Farmer jailed after abandoning more than 450 animals in 'squalor'

Around 200 animals are still believed to be on the farm

Farmer jailed for 455-animal neglect case dubbed one of RSPCA's worst

Police and RSPCA officers needed help from over 100 charity staff when stumbling across the 'farm of horrors' scene in Nottinghamshire.

‘Most broken animal I’ve ever seen’: Farm owner banned for neglecting 450 animals

Lee Hayes handed a lifetime animal ban for the ‘deliberate and sustained’ neglect of the animals

Horror as 450 animals found in heartbreaking conditions

A farm owner has been issued a lifetime ban

‘Wanton neglect of hundreds of animals’: 59 horses among +450 animals seized in one of the worst cases the RSPCA has dealt with - Horse & Hound

A farmer who “wantonly neglected hundreds of animals” in one of the largest cases the RSPCA has ever dealt with has been jailed for a year and banned from keeping all animals for life. Authorities who went to Croftfield Farm in Dawgates Lane, Skegby, near Sutton-in-Ashfield two years ago found a “foul smell” owing to the “appalling conditions” in which Lee Hayes, now 52, was keeping more than 450 animals. About 70 horses and donkeys were seized …

British farmer who kept over 450 animals in ‘squalor’ jailed and banned for life - Agriland.co.uk

A British farmer who neglected more than 450 animals on a farm in Nottinghamshire has been jailed and handed a lifetime animal ban by a judge. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) discovered the animals living in “appalling conditions” at Croftfield Farm, near Sutton-in-Ashfield, when they attended the site with police officers. According to the RSPCA, the case was one of the largest it has dealt with and led to a l…