Is your favourite Friday kebab made from DISEASED stolen sheep? Inside Britain’s farm theft epidemic putting you at risk
The Sun · Luke Chafer ·
DURING the dead of night, gangs of masked thieves in fleets of lorries are descending on Britain’s farms, but they are not after expensive tractors or machinery — their target is sheep. In a …
DURING the dead of night, gangs of masked thieves in fleets of lorries are descending on Britain’s farms, but they are not after expensive tractors or machinery — their target is sheep.
In a disturbing new trend, criminals are rounding up and sneaking off with entire flocks, leaving behind injured sheep and lambs bleating for their missing mothers.
And experts fear the stolen livestock could be slaughtered illegally, with the cut-price meat ending up in kebabs and takeaways eaten by unsuspecting Brits putting their health at risk.