“Jonathan Bowes admits string of animal cruelty charges.

A Leicestershire man who admitted using scissors to cut off parts of adult ducks’ wings, permanently preventing them from flying, has been banned from keeping birds for five years.

Jonathan Bowes, 41, of Main Street, Knipton, was today (Monday) sentenced to the ban, and fined a total of £1,500 after he admitted two counts of pinioning wigeon ducks without anaesthetic. He appeared at Loughborough Magistrates Court, when he also pleaded guilty to three charges of selling or offering for sale wild birds, two counts of causing unnecessary suffering and one of using a spring trap to catch wild birds.”

Source: RSPCA Press release: Monday, 15 July 2013

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