A farmer who left hundreds of animals to die or suffer in a ‘total animal welfare disaster’ has been jailed for eight months.
Mark Downes, 50, kept pigs, cows, sheep and horses in ‘appalling conditions’ on his ramshackle ‘farm from hell,’ a court heard.
RSPCA inspectors found pigs feasting on rotting carcasses and the bodies of dead animals in barns.
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