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Cruel cockfighting operation as animals forced run on 'Ferris wheel' treadmill

A cruel cockfighting operation was dismantled after Lincolnshire Police found fighting pits and a treadmill in a farm where birds had been kept in awful conditions

Two cruel cockfighters have been sentenced after the RSPCA busted their operation and uncovered they were training the animals on treadmills.

Hugh Steele, 53, and Douglas Price, 34, were found to have dozens of cockerels, hens and chicks in enclosures along with cockfighting items during a search of their premises in Lincolnshire last May. The RSPCA's Special Operations Unit (SOU) also dismantled two fighting pits and seized several vehicles in an operation supported by police.

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During the raid, investigators had found a "cockerel treadmill", which was "cylindrical and in the shape of a Ferris wheel", a spokesperson said. The charity said its investigation also found two dead chicks at the site and there was "little or no food or water" for the remaining animals, which were "kept in dark, cramped and dirty pens".

Both men were handed 10-week jail terms, suspended for 12 months, at Lincoln Magistrates' Court on Tuesday. They have each been ordered to pay £1,000 costs and carry out 150 hours of unpaid work. The court heard the residential site in