Best wishes to all our sheep meat customers (that pay).......

[Northeastfarmer]

More bad news, I'm afraid.
Despite keeping a watch on things during every daylight hour since their 4 am attempt on Thursday morning we lost another 8 (or 9 - physical count doesn't agree with the race eid reader) lambs between midnight and 3.30 am on Saturday morning.
This time they drove a bunch of mixed lambs from 3 fields away, through 2 lots of electric fencing (there's fecking wire everywhere) to the same place on the main roadside where they got the other two lots.
They've left a bit more DNA and some fingerprints this time apparently.

Spent the last two days moving sheep to other grazing we have away from home until we can get these barstewards sorted out

Absolute b@stards!!!! I couldn’t think of any worse! They should be hung drawn and quartered

 

[yellowbelly]

Absolute b@stards!!!!

Update...........
They had another go on Saturday night. This time we got one of 'the absolute b@stards' in handcuffs
Unfortunately 3 or 4 more got away as the police helicopter was 'otherwise engaged'

Vehicle seized

Can't say any more at the moment (don't want to jeopardise the investigation) but it looks like we're making some progress at last

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Update...........
They had another go on Saturday night. This time we got one of 'the absolute barstewards' in handcuffs
Unfortunately 3 or 4 more got away as the police helicopter was 'otherwise engaged'

Vehicle seized

Can't say any more at the moment (don't want to jeopardise the investigation) but it looks like we're making some progress at last

Glad you managed to catch at least one of the b@stards! Can you say of which religious belief they were?

 

[yellowbelly]

Can you say of which religious belief they were?

I suspect it's the one that likes 'to say a little prayer' as they cut their throats.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I suspect it's the one that likes 'to say a little prayer' as they cut their throats.

As I thought

 

[matthew]

Well done.

 

[hendrebc]

I had a bad freling in the bottom of my stomach seeing an alert for this thread after all the other times they came back but im so glad that one of the barstewards got caught now lets hope they bring back hanging for people who steal sheep in the next day or two

 

[exmoor dave]

Top job catching one of the lowlifes!

 

[Spuddler]

Im not sure if I wouldnt be able to refrain from giving him a good hiding before ringing plod
Excellent news well done!

 

[yellowbelly]

Im not sure if I wouldnt be able to refrain from giving him a good hiding before ringing plod

Trying to 'play it by the book' as much as possible to try and ensure we get a conviction

 

[Spuddler]

Trying to 'play it by the book' as much as possible to try and ensure we get a conviction

Very wise
I hope it is taken seriously enough when in court

 

[Wolds Beef]

How many Lincolns have you lost @yellowbelly I know they don't care! but us that know how few Lincoln's there are do.
WB

 

[yellowbelly]

How many Lincolns have you lost @yellowbelly I know they don't care! but us that know how few Lincoln's there are do.
WB

Out of the 16 missing, 6 Lincoln lambs and 3 Lincoln ewes the rest are commercial lambs.

It would seem that the Lincolns just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time

 

[Deereone]

I am delighted that you are making progress. I was surprised that they kept returning to the same place. They would have to be extremely foolish to come back again now.

 

[yellowbelly]

I was surprised that they kept returning to the same place. They would have to be extremely foolish to come back again now.

They're a very 'brass-necked' lot - they've been loading them over a post and rail fence only yards from our neighbour's farmhouse.

A young lady who has a few sheep only 3 villages away rang us last night as 2 vehicles had been seen 'loitering' in the vicinity of her lambs.
I'm afraid we're not going to stop it unless we get them all caught.

 

[SLA]

On the plus side they’d be a lot harder to catch if they weren’t so brazen. It really is shocking they are so “brass necked” the shear audacity of them should insure it’s taken seriously, it must be fairly organised looking at the numbers they’ve taken.
Here’s hoping they catch the rest and make an example of them.

 

[Old Tip]

I do hope the CPS take it seriously and the police manage to round up the rest of the gang. I caught three blokes who had stolen about five ton of firewood and they would not prosecute, I was bloody furious and complained but to no avail

 

[yellowbelly]

I do hope the CPS take it seriously and the police manage to round up the rest of the gang. I caught three blokes who had stolen about five ton of firewood and they would not prosecute, I was bloody furious and complained but to no avail

That would be the danger - everything seems 'weighted' against the victims in these cases. Don't want to say too much at the moment, I hope to have better news and will keep you all posted when I can.
The 'wheels' of justice do seem to turn rather slowly though.

 

[unlacedgecko]

That would be the danger - everything seems 'weighted' against the victims in these cases. Don't want to say too much at the moment, I hope to have better news and will keep you all posted when I can.
The 'wheels' of justice do seem to turn rather slowly though.

It’s terrible. The have been several cases of illegal halal abattoirs running in blocks of flats in Gloucester. Despite the flat being full of bloody knives and butchered sheep, CPS have not proceeded due to “lack of evidence”.

Good luck!

 

[hendrebc]

I'm afraid we're not going to stop it unless we get them all dead

Corrected that for you
Funny i heard somewere that sheep and lambs for islamic religious festivals had to be paid for or they wouldnt be holy as they were considered stolen if the sheep hadnt been paid for before the festival. Someone told me that thats why we only see the islamic buyers in ruthin just before festivals as they were sure to pay for festival sheep when other times they arent to be trusted for paying. There would apparently be a backlash from their honest customers and their religious leaders if they found out that they had been selling them 'unholy' meat for their festivals. But they had no such issues at other times if the year
This is what ive heard in market i dont know how true it is though i dont go often enough to know who the buyers are and were the sheep are going