Farmer gets home detention after 234 stock euthanised due to neglect (Photo / Getty) Tue, 6 Jul 2021, 11:39AM A Southland farmer who had 234 of his stock euthanised because of emaciation and fly-strike was yesterday sentenced to nine months' home detention. Bevan Scott Tait (52) received his sentence by audiovisual link at the Invercargill District Court having earlier pleaded guilty to eight charges under the Animal Welfare Act for serious animal welfare offending. The Ministry of Primary Industries' animal welfare arm launched an investigation at Tait's Tussock Creek farm following a complaint in 2019. The complaint led to a series of MPI, farm consultant and veterinarian inspections from April until August that year.