'Boxy the bull' is granted reprieve from slaughter
A bull sentenced to slaughter after testing positive for bovine TB has won a reprieve after its South Yorkshire owners took its case to the High Court.
Ken Jackson, of Forlorn Hope Farm, Walden Stubbs, disputes the validity of a TB test that condemned Boxy the bull.
Defra ordered the bull to be slaughtered after a positive blood sample was taken last April.
Mr Justice McCombe quashed the slaughter notice and said Defra made "a mountain out of a farm molehill".
14 Apr 2011
- From the section UK