Jail for farmer who put men in boar pen

A pig farmer who ordered two repossession men to strip naked and get into a pen with an “agitated” boar has been jailed.

Donal Connaughton, aged 55, from Elfeet, Newtowncashel, Co Longford, was sentenced to 12 months in prison at Longford Circuit Court sitting in Tullamore yesterday.

At the conclusion of his trial in December last year, the farmer was found guilty of two counts of false imprisonment, two charges of threatening to cause serious harm, one count of assault, and two of criminal damage. He was found not guilty on another charge of assault.