Strong comments criticising the sentence handed down to a 19-year-old farm apprentice caught on camera punching and kicking calves have been posted on social media.
Owen Nichol was
spared jail by Magistrates yesterday (April 26) after previously admitting two counts of causing unnecessary suffering to animals at Pyrland Farm.
Nichol, of Buckland Road,
Taunton was sentenced to 12 weeks detention, suspended for one year.
Dozens of comments on the Somerset Live Facebook page have...
