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Farmers get treated like terror suspects by the RSPCA

2 March 2019

9:00 AM

2 March 2019

9:00 AM

‘What do you mean, you have no ID?’ I asked the farmer, starting to feel dizzy with the mind-boggling convolution of it all.

‘They took all my personal documents. I keep asking but no one gets back to me,’ he said.

The farmer, you may remember, was the subject of a police and RSPCA raid on land near to where I live in Surrey where the RSPCA seized 123 horses, which then disappeared on to the motorway in lorries with the charity refusing to say where it was taking them.

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