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Not written for ages. Been up in Wales week after week, but I really thought I had been twigged as I seem to be getting more invites to puppy farms dealers meets and  the such like. Mum says it’s because her friends are elderly and need a strong man to help. But I say they just want free labour.

     Part of me is in despair. We were sitting around a table talking about the new animal welfare act, and 3 breeder friends of mums laughed and said it would not affect them. Well looking into this I see they are right. the reason they gave for the laws being just one big laugh was a man close by who breeds dogs sheep horses and cattle, even has cattle in other counties was banned from keeping animals for life, yet there he is even having been in prison still with over 100 animals. Surely this was rubbish I thought, so I put up Julian Jones animal cruelty on the computer, and there it was.

 

 

Smokiest and the bandit

Feb 27 2005

Lucy Ballinger, Wales on Sunday

60 sheep were found hanging from a rail bleeding to death and 40 more were shorn awaiting slaughter. Jones had already been banned from keeping animals for life nearly six years ago

A Welsh farmer banned for life from keeping animals has been jailed for six months for running an illegal slaughterhouse in Scotland.

Julian Jones, from Cardigan, admitted he produced 'smokiness' from a filthy barn in Buckie, Scotland.

Elgin Sheriff Court heard that 60 sheep were found hanging from a rail bleeding to death and 40 more were shorn awaiting slaughter.

Jones had already been banned from keeping animals for life nearly six years ago.

In April 1999, he admitted causing unnecessary suffering to animals and failing to dispose of carcasses which dogs had access to, after a lengthy investigation by Ceredigion environmental health officers.

He was banned by Lampeter magistrates from ever keeping animals again.

Jones later moved to Scotland, to Backies Farm, Buckie, from where he ran his illegal slaughterhouse and delivered 'smokiness' to halal butchers in England in his battered van. Criminal gangs make vast fortunes by selling sub-standard meat for use in 'smokiness', a meat delicacy eaten at religious and holiday festivals by people from Nigeria and Ghana. Because they have a burnt appearance, consumers have no way of knowing the condition of the original meat.

In 2002, Jones was caught in London delivering 200 'smokie' carcasses plus decomposing sheep heads.

When health inspectors visited his farm in Grampian, Jones said that he was supplying 'smokiness' to butchers shops in areas where there was a large West African or Jamaican community.

Heath inspectors and a Scottish Executive vet found blowtorches, LPG cylinders and buckets of sheep parts in outbuildings on the farm.

Jones admitted the throats of the sheep were cut without the animals first being stunned. Defence solicitor Ian Cruickshank said his client did not "shy away from the fact that conditions were entirely unsatisfactory for slaughtering".

"He knows that Muslims are very particular and fastidious about the production of their food," he said. "But the products were not sold to the public, just to halal butchers."

Sheriff Cameron said: "It doesn't take much to see the resulting risk of infection, to which you were wholly indifferent to.

 

I then found this……

A Man banned for life from keeping animals was caught with more than 40 animals when his van broke down. Julian Jones (42) had ferried the 31 calves, six bantam hens, six collie pups, and an American kestrel, from Wales to Scotland. Jones had been banned for life from keeping animals at Ceridigion magistrates in 1999, after dead and dying livestock was discovered on a Welsh farm where he lived. Jones, who appeared from custody at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on 11/4/06 admitted having custody of the calves, hens, pups, and kestrel in the course of the journey, despite having been banned for life from having custody or control over animals. His not-guilty pleas to allegations that he failed to ensure he had the necessary documentation for transporting the beasts, and to carrying calves in a trailer which had sharp, protruding edges likely to cause the animals injury or unnecessary suffering, were accepted by the Crown. In February 2005 Jones was jailed for six months at Elgin Sheriff Court for carrying out an illegal slaughtering operation to supply sheep smokies. At that time Jones was carrying out a community service order imposed by an English court for his involvement in the smokies trade. Sheriff McLernan deferred sentence for two years, until 11/4/08.

 

They said the dogs he bred were no better off or the horses, so if he got away with blatantly doing a vees up at the system then they had no worries. I asked how he gets away with it and was told his girlfriend /wife has the animals in her name! If that makes you as cross as I, do something. He lives near Llandysul SA44. And read on, may be the sheriff who convicted him needs to know, maybe lots of us will tell him!!!!

The sheriff's details: Sheriff McLernan, Aberdeen Sheriff Court, 8 Castle Street, Aberdeen AB10 1WV.

Sheriff.KMcLernan@scotcourts.gov.uk