Police are urging the general public to return ahead with extra data after fourteen lambs have been killed by a automotive which drove onto a area.
Surrey Police are investigating the incident, which came about in a single day on 17-18 January, inflicting the demise of a number of lambs at a farm in Bramley.
The drive mentioned it believed a automobile had entered the non-public farmland after which mowed over the lambs.
A 15-year-old boy from Redhill has been arrested on suspicion of two counts of legal injury, however the investigation is ongoing.
Sergeant Phil Bayman mentioned the incident was ‘extraordinarily uncommon’: “We recognize that it’ll have brought about appreciable misery to the proprietor of the farm and inside the wider group.
“We wish to reassure you that we’re taking this critically and doing all the pieces we are able to to deliver these accountable to justice.”
The farmer, Nick Hutley, instructed BBC Radio Surrey that the perpetrator took the gates to the sector off their hinges and “pushed via” one other gate to get to the sheep.
He warned that rural crime was an “ongoing battle”, including that it was “getting probably harmful if individuals really feel that they will joyride like that and kill livestock”.
The most recent figures by NFU Mutual present that in 2022, the price of rural crime rose sharply by 22%, reaching a complete estimate of £49.5m.
The price of livestock theft within the UK surged 8.7% in 2022, totalling an estimated £2.7 million.
Sergeant Bayman mentioned that officers have been additionally searching for any dashcam or CCTV footage which can assist the investigation.
“We’re asking anybody with any data, together with anybody who witnessed the incident… to return ahead as quickly as attainable.”
Anybody with data have been instructed to report it to Surrey Police by quoting PR/0185 of 18/1 by way of the drive’s web site or 101.
