Vicious gang ruins years of devoted work Sep 25 2004

From: Steve Terry (steveterry_at_farm-direct.con)
Date: 12/03/04 

Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:30:22 +0000

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Vicious gang ruins years of devoted work Sep 25 2004

By Staff Reporter, Birmingham Post
 
  
A retired thatcher who keeps pheasants, hens and guinea fowl appealed
for help yesterday after attackers slaughtered more than 130 of his
birds.

Great-grandfather Pip Handy found the mutilated birds strewn around a
barn when he went to feed them at Hillborough Farm, near
Welford-on-Avon.

The 72-year-old, who breeds pheasants for shooting, said thugs used a
slash hook found on the farm to torture the birds, many of which he
had hand-reared from birth.

Mr Handy kept about 250 birds on the farm, situated close to Stratford
upon Avon, and said he was distraught by what had happened.

He said: "I'm devastated - some of those birds were really old pets
that I've had for 14 years and I knew them by name.

"Whoever did this slaughtered mother guinea fowl with their babies and
then went into one pheasant pen where there were about 80 and killed
the lot.

"About 80 per cent were decapitated, it was just gruesome.

"When I went up there and saw the disgusting mess of slaughtered birds
I thought I was going to die, I was that upset." Mr Handy kept the
birds on a local farmer's land and during the shooting season would
organise small groups for shoots.

Mr Handy's daughter, Trudi, said she believed more than one person had
been responsible for the attack.

The 41-year-old said her family, who live in Grafton Lane, in the
nearby village of Bidford-on-Avon, were still finding dead birds in
the hedgerows days later.

Warwickshire Police want to trace a blue Citroen Berlingo van seen
parked near the farm on Wednesday afternoon.
  

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