Two “frankly sadistic” agricultural students have been detained for beating a sheep to death, before inserting explosive bird scarers in its body, while filming the attack.
Leighton Ashby, 22 and from Beckett Road in Ashford, Kent, and Oakley Hollands, 20, of Mussenden Lane in Horton Kirby, Kent, appeared at Hove Crown Court on Monday.
At an earlier hearing the Plumpton College students had admitted killing the sheep in a field near Ditchling Beacon, East Sussex, on 2 November 2023.
Ashby was sentenced to two years in prison, while Hollands has been sent to a young offender institution for 20 months, with both disqualified from owning animals for 10 years.