Shipping company owner unlikely ever to face charges over 59 cattle deaths

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Shipping company owner Les Dick unlikely ever to face charges over 59 cattle deaths

A Tasmanian shipping company owner is unlikely to face animal cruelty charges over the deaths of 59 cattle, after agreeing not to be involved in transporting livestock for five years.Shipping identity Les Dick has been fighting animal cruelty charges after cattle died on a Bass Strait crossing

He has been diagnosed with bone cancer and the charges against him have now been adjourned to a date to be setAbout 200 head of cattle were on board the MV Statesman, which left Stanley in January 2016 for Port Welshpool in Victoria. Fifty-nine of them either died en route or had to be euthanised allegedly as a result of the weather and rough conditions during the Bass Strait crossing.

 

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SandraBrisAU All live export by ship is cruel and disgusting treatment of a farm animal. Ironic that thousands of people are now trapped on metal hulks at sea as a result of a virus caused by animal slaughter. Karma is a bitch. But you have to be impressed COVID19au

A mass-killing terrorist has more sympathy from Our ABC.

Of course not, our legal system is broken. What a despicable human.

So, no more dick.

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