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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