A British farmer has been jailed for a year after the discovery of rotting animal carcasses around his Nottingham farm.
Trading Standards officers from Nottinghamshire County Council found about 50 rotting carcasses of pigs, cows, poultry and a donkey around Keith James Littlewood's farm in Bestwood when they inspected it last March.
Officers also found starving animals with no access to food or water.
Littlewood was sentenced this week in Nottingham Crown Court for animal cruelty and breaches of animal by-product laws.
Littlewood blamed the bad winter for not being able to get on the farm to remove the dead animals. He suggested some may have died from food poisoning or been dumped on his property, known as White Haven Farm, in Goosedale Lane.
The court was told Littlewood became depressed after the death of his mother in 2009 and had found simple tasks difficult.
His counsel told the court it was not wilful neglect, but a simple inability to cope.
Judge Michael Stokes QC, the Recorder of Nottingham, imposed a 12-month prison sentence.
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