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Cheshire Police Rural Crime Team is investigating an attack which left a sheep and two lambs dead and mutilated on a farm in Marton, near Whitegate A SHEEP and two lambs have been killed and mutilated in a savage attack. Shocked couple Ferg Roylance, 20, and Zara Bowden, 19, were horrified to find their pet sheep dead at a farm in Marton, near Whitegate. A mother and her lamb and an orphan lamb had had their necks broken. Cheshire Police Rural Crime Team is now investigating the incident and appealing for information. It is absolutely awful, said Zara. They are not commercial sheep, they are our pets.
CHESHIRE Police have described a sheep attack which killed 30 animals at Christmas as atrocious and abhorrent . The Cheshire Police Rural Crime Team posted details of the incident, which happened sometime between Christmas Eve and lunchtime on Christmas Day off John Street, Utkinton near Chester, on their social media pages. Officers suspect, given the wounds sustained, the attack was a sheep worrying incident caused by out of control dogs.
The image of the sheep attack posted by the Cheshire Police Rural Crime Team. Police said: Only limited actual bloody attack wounds are present, indicating a dog/s have chased and worried the majority of the sheep to stressed and panicked exhaustion.