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"Bull Attack: Farmer Charged Over Walker's Death"

Posted on the 06 August 2013 by Markwadsworth @Mark_Wadsworth
From the BBCA farmer has been charged with gross negligence manslaughter over the death of a walker who was killed by a bull.  Roger Freeman died while walking with his wife through Underhill Farm at Stanford-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, close to the Leicestershire border. Paul Waterfall has been bailed to appear at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on 21 August. The Crown Prosecution Service said he was responsible for the farm at the time of the attack in November 2010.  Woah! What sort of fresh madness is this? Cattle are dangerous, end of, always have been, always will be. Farmers get killed and injured, so do people walking their dogs. That is in the nature of things. That is why cattle are kept in fields and behind gates and fences.  Conversely, I am delighted to see that dog owners will be made criminally liable for the acts of their pets , something I myself suggested a while back.

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