Tooan farmer fined $8000 for animal cruelty

Updated September 22 2015 - 2:11pm, first published May 14 2015 - 11:26am
A farmer has been fined thousands of dollars for letting his sheep become starved.
A farmer has been fined thousands of dollars for letting his sheep become starved.

A 62-year-old Tooan farmer has been convicted of 53 counts of animal cruelty after pleading guilty at Hamilton Magistrates’ Court earlier this month.

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