Teens stamped on fawn ‘for a laugh’

THREE youths killed a two-day-old fawn by stamping on it “for a laugh”, a court heard yesterday.

The teenagers, two 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old, caught the female baby deer as it waited for its mother in Upton Country Park, Dorset, on June 10 this year.

The trio, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were “egging” each other on with one boy swinging it by its leg, another karate chopping its head before all three “stomped” it to death, Paul Griffin, prosecuting told Poole Youth Court.