Pair carried out 'disturbing crimes' on animals

TWO men have been sentenced for shooting a badger dead, dragging it's lifeless body down a hill and throwing it into a nearby bog.

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They were prosecuted after a joint investigation by Dyfed-Powys Police's Rural Crime Team and RSPCA.

The RSPCA had been alerted to suspicious activity around an active badger sett on a grassy hillside in the Esgairdawe area of Carmarthenshire by a member of the rural community.

The witness, looking through their camera with a telescopic lens, saw a group digging into a badger sett, before seeing a man drag a heavy animal down the hill and throwing it over a fence into a bog.

They also saw another man carrying a terrier with blood on its legs in one arm, and a shotgun in the other.