A pensioner was left horrified after he turned up at his allotment to find his 10 pet hens, six ducks and a cockerel had been killed in a ‘senseless attack’.
The RSPCA and police were called to Earl Shilton, Leicestershire, after the 72-year-old, who kept the birds as pets near his home, came across the scene when he went to feed them.
The elderly man said he was devastated when he saw that his birds had been killed and their bodies had been strewn around the ground at the allotment.