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Ag students branded 'callous and sadistic' after blowing up sheep

Judge hands out custodial sentences after pair convicted of killing sheep

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Two Plumpton College students have been given custodial sentences after carrying out a 'sadistic' killing on a sheep. Picture credit: Sussex Police
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Two Plumpton College students have been given custodial sentences after carrying out a 'sadistic' killing on a sheep. Picture credit: Sussex Police

Two Plumpton College agricultural students have been branded ‘callous and sadistic' after being detained for beating a sheep to death before inserting explosives into its body. Leighton Ashby from Ashford...

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