The community of Messingham in Lincolnshire has been left devastated afer three lambs bought by a farmer for nearby primary schoolchildren to visit and help rear have been found slaughtered and skinned.
Distressing photos show the skin and entrails of the animals left scattered across a nearby field and we feel these photos are too extreme for a family friendly news site such as ours.
Hooks were found in a tree suggesting the creatures were hanged in the air by the thieves while they were slaughtered and the meat for eating was removed.
The 57-year-old farmer is an RAF veteran who raised the lambs called Ethel, Chunk and Ugs. He told The Independent:
I got a call from police saying they had found lamb and sheep skins across the road from my farm.
When I arrived, I found the skins and entrails of three of my animals strewn across the ground. It was a sickening sight.
I bought the lambs so that children from a school in Scunthorpe could come and enjoy them. The kids would come a couple of times a week and help feed them and that kind of thing.
They were extremely tame, so I’m sure they would have happily approached anyone that went into the barn. How am I supposed to tell the children about this?”
A Police Spokesperson said:
A barn was broken into between 6pm on Friday 1 and 7am on Saturday 2 March.
A sheep and three four-week-old lambs were taken. The animals’ skins and carcasses were found nearby. Damage was caused to the farm and its fencing during the burglary.
This is clearly a very upsetting incident and the theft of livestock from farms is a serious matter. We are investigating this case, looking for forensic evidence and viewing CCTV to try and identify those responsible.”
The animals were not bred for eating and may result in the thieves becoming extremely ill if they eat it which may be the only positive in this otherwise disgusting tale.
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