CONVICTED (2021) | Jago Mattew Lethbridge, born c. 1997, of Ferndale Street, Faringdon but with strong links to St Ives in Cornwall and Hugh Town on St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly – killed a chicken he stole from a farm by breaking its neck.
Lethbridge, who works as a boat skipper, admitted stealing two chickens from a farm on St Mary’s on the Isles of Scilly.
He also pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to the chicken by breaking its neck and killing it.
Sentencing | 12-week custodial sentence, suspended for 12 months; four-month curfew. Ordered to pay compensation of £171.20, a surcharge of £128 and costs of £85. Ten-year ban on keeping animals (expires June 2031).