{"id":347732,"date":"2026-03-15T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/347732\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:18:08","slug":"investigation-after-13-lambs-necks-deliberately-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/347732\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation after 13 lambs’ necks ‘deliberately broken’"},"content":{"rendered":"

An investigation is under way after 13 lambs had their necks “deliberately broken” at a farm in Co Down.<\/p>\n

The PSNI said it received a report that the lambs had been killed on a farm on Drumsesk Road in Rostrevor between 7pm on Friday and 7.45am yesterday morning.<\/p>\n

“It appears that their necks had been deliberately broken,” a PSNI inspector said.<\/p>\n

“This is a shocking crime, and we would be keen to hear from anyone who noticed anything unusual in the area during the times above.”<\/p>\n

Sinn F\u00e9in councillor Mickey Ruane said he understood the livestock belonged to two brothers who farmed the land where the animals were found.<\/p>\n

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\nA view of the farmland in Rostrevor where the sheep were found dead<\/p>\n

Cllr Ruane said it was a despicable act involving extreme cruelty to the animals which would also impact the livelihoods of their owners.<\/p>\n

He appealed to anyone with information about what he called an “unusual and cruel incident” to pass it on to police.<\/p>\n

Police also issued an appeal to anyone with information to contact officers on 101 quoting reference 495 14\/03\/26.<\/p>\n

They encouraged the public to report online at psni.police.uk\/makeareport or to contact Crimestoppers with 100% anonymity on 0800 555 111 or online at crimestoppers-uk.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is under way after 13 lambs had their necks “deliberately broken” at a farm in Co…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-347732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}