Second teen arrested after 14 lambs killed in suspected farm joyride

A second teenager has been arrested after 14 lambs, value £2,000 every, had been mercilessly mown down in a suspected joyride by way of a rustic subject.

The 19-year-old man was questioned by police on suspicion of prison injury after the brutal livestock mass killing in Bramley, close to Guildford, which befell in a single day within the early hours of January 18.

The suspect was additionally arrested on suspicion of arson in relation to a blaze at a farm in Gomshall, Surrey, on January 13, a police spokesperson mentioned.

The teenager was later launched on bail pending additional investigation by Surrey Police, the BBC reported.

Fourteen lambs had been killed in a suspected joyride on a farm in Bramley, close to Guildford, within the early hours of January 18

A dozen younger sheep had been discovered useless by farmer Nick Hutley as he awoke the following morning. An extra two needed to be put down in a while after they suffered extreme accidents from the suspected joyride

A teen, 19, has been arrested on suspicion of prison injury after the brutal livestock mass killing

The arrest comes simply days after a 15-year-old boy from Redhill, Surrey, was questioned by police on suspicion of two counts of prison injury following an attraction by the drive for any info on the killings, which noticed 12 lambs discovered useless by farmer Nick Hutley as he awoke on the morning of January 18.

An extra two younger sheep needed to be put down in a while after they suffered extreme accidents from the suspected joyride.

The 15-year-old was additionally arrested in suspicion of arson in reference to the Gomshall farm fireplace. 

Mr Hutley, whose household has owned Gate Street Farm on the Wintershall Estate for greater than 50 years, mentioned that he got here throughout the fallen livestock mendacity open-eyed on their sides within the subject, which held round 50 sheep.

A 15-year-old boy from Redhill, Surrey, was questioned by police simply days earlier than on suspicion of two counts of prison injury following an attraction by the drive for any info on the killings

Mr Hutley, whose household has owned Gate Street Farm on the Wintershall Estate for greater than 50 years, mentioned that he got here throughout the fallen livestock mendacity open-eyed on their sides within the subject, which held round 50 sheep

Following the arrest of the primary teenager, Waverley Neighbourhood Sergeant Phil Bayman pressured that police had been coping with the incident with the utmost seriousness

‘It was a state of shock,’ he mentioned.

‘My first response was that there should be some kind of dreadful illness, then actuality units in – there’s not a illness that might have killed 14 wholesome sheep like this.

‘As I approached them I believed possibly they’d been shot or attacked by a canine – then I noticed the tyre tracks and realised anyone had pushed over them.’

Car elements, together with a part of a bumper, had been discovered on the scene of the crime alongside the slaughtered lambs.

Following the arrest of the primary teenager, Waverley Neighbourhood Sergeant Phil Bayman pressured that police had been coping with the incident with the utmost seriousness.

‘This incident is extraordinarily uncommon, and we recognize that it’s going to have triggered appreciable misery to the proprietor of the farm and throughout the wider group,’ Sgt Bayman mentioned.

‘We want to reassure you that we’re taking this severely and doing the whole lot we will to convey these accountable to justice.

‘We are asking anybody with any info, together with anybody who witnessed the incident, or with every other info, significantly anybody who might have seen a broken car within the space across the time of the offence, to come back ahead as quickly as potential.

‘We are additionally in search of any dashcam or CCTV footage which can assist our investigation.’