A council has apologised after failing to pick up the dumped rotting bones of a large butchered animal for two months, despite a Rotorua ratepayer reporting them five times. Ōwhata resident ...

Previously, the court heard Simpson had failed to comply with restrictions on animal byproducts ... were being left to rot in his fields which were littered with sheep bones.

"Numerous bones and bone fragments were discovered in the ash, too numerous to count." In total, 64 animals were recovered: 30 cats and 34 dogs, with police saying more than 170 animals are still ...

An Oxfordshire shepherd has received a suspended sentence for further animal welfare offences after leaving dead sheep to rot in his field littered with bones. Jonathon Hornsby Simpson ...