Published in stuff.co.nz on 16/10/2024 https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350450666/farmer-who-left-sheep-die-banned-owning-animals A Manawatū farmer who left dozens of sheep to suffer slow, painful deaths has been denied a discharge without conviction and instead fined $13,000. Alasdair Currie appeared for sentencing in the Palmerston North District Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to charges relating to the the ill treatment of […]
Published in Sunlive on 14 August 2024 https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/349045-mangakino-farmer-jailed-for-animal-cruelty.html Warning: Disturbing content An “unrepentant” Mangakino farmer has been jailed and banned from farming animals after being found with hundreds of starving cattle and sheep, some near death, injured or deformed. Warren Koberstein is 75 and has been a farmer for 40 years. But Rotorua District Court Judge Tony Snell
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Published 24 Feb 2023 https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300815567/hundreds-of-sheep-euthanised-due-to-appalling-farming-conditions Hundreds of sheep had to be euthanised and thousands suffered from ill treatment by two farmers using “dreadful” and “appalling” practices. One of the farmers also drove his ute at an animal welfare investigator and a vet while they were checking the sheep in April 2020. The farmers, Manawatū brothers
Published 24 Feb 2023 https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300815567/hundreds-of-sheep-euthanised-due-to-appalling-farming-conditions Hundreds of sheep had to be euthanised and thousands suffered from ill treatment by two farmers using “dreadful” and “appalling” practices. One of the farmers also drove his ute at an animal welfare investigator and a vet while they were checking the sheep in April 2020. The farmers, Manawatū brothers
Warren Michael George Koberstein Published on www.1news.co.nz on 4 March 2022 https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/03/04/farmer-fined-after-8-sheep-dead-100-not-treated-for-flystrike/ Warren Michael George Koberstein was sentenced at Tokoroa District Court this week following a Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) investigation and prosecution. The 72-year-old Mangakino farmer was convicted for failing to treat about 100 sheep with flystrike, and for the reckless ill treatment
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Bevan Scott Tait Published on www.scoop.co.nz 05 July 2021 A farmer has been sentenced to nine months’ home detention and banned from owning or managing farm animals for four years for serious animal welfare offending. Bevan Scott Tait (52) received his sentence by audio visual link at the Invercargill District Court today having earlier pleaded
Vernon Gledstone-Brown Published on voxy.co.nz on 21 June 2021 http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/389013 A farmer has been fined $8,250 for keeping injured sheep alive when they should have been euthanised and failing to treat sheep suffering flystrike. Vernon Gledstone-Brown (73) received the sentence at the Palmerston North District Court on Friday, having earlier pleaded guilty to four charges
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Published on www.stuff.co.nz 10/02/2021 https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/124203541/south-canterbury-lifestyle-farmer-fined-17500-for-starving-and-illtreating-sheep A South Canterbury lifestyle farmer has been fined $17,500 for the reckless ill-treatment of his sheep, failing to provide them with proper feed, and not treating them for parasites. Donald Charles Pelvin, 67, was sentenced in Christchurch District Court on Wednesday on three animal welfare charges brought by the Ministry
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Lindsay Fraser Published on NZ Herald 3/9/2020 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12361849 A Masterton woman has been banned from owning stock for a decade after horses were left with untreated maggot-infested wounds and other parasite-infested animals were so thin they were barely more than skin and bones. In one of the worst cases of animal cruelty and neglect ever
Published on www.stuff.co.nz on 07/05/2019 https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/112514794/taihape-farmer-banned-from-owning-animals-after-sheep-deaths A Taihape farmer is banned from owning or managing farm animals for five years, after allowing dozens of ewes to die. Animal welfare officers were greeted with a grisly sight when they went to William “Bill” Chase’s farm. Thirty ewes were decomposing, while 22 had to be euthanised, and
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