reports Lancashire Live.Burnley Crown Court heard Waters, a supermarket stock checker, has previous convictions for abusing horses in 1997 and 2016.Get the latest updates from across Greater Manchester direct to your inbox with the free MEN newsletterYou can sign up very simply by following the instructions hereJudge Sara Dodd said the case was “as unusual as it is disturbing” as she handed down his sentence.On September 19 2020, the farmer at Lower Holker Farm, Accrington, opened the chicken shed to discover a number of dead and injured birds.Fearing “something sexual” had happened to them, he checked CCTV and called in the RSPCA.Footage showed Waters prowling around the farm before leaving the barn at 11.40pm.He was arrested on September.
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