Farmer banned from keeping animals for a decade after 'horrendous' cruelty

Leslie Stewart had already served a two-year ban and received a suspended jail sentence imposed in 2016 for starving animals on his property

Judge Paul Kelly told Letterkenny District Court the only reason he was not sending Stewart to jail was because of his age.

A Co. Donegal farmer has been banned from keeping animals for 10 years after being found guilty of a number of charges of animal cruelty.

74-year-old farmer Leslie Stewart was found guilty of a number of charges after animal welfare officers called to his farm at The Thorn outside Letterkenny on various dates.