Farm worker jailed after being filmed battering pigs to death with plastic pipe and picking them up by their ears in 'hell hole' farm

A man who was caught on camera beating pigs to death at a 'hell hole' farm was jailed today for animal cruelty. Geoffrey Towell, 54, was seen hitting five sows with a plastic pipe - beating one of the sows 35 times. He also killed three pigs by smashing them on the head with a metal bar and using unnecessary force. His colleague James Dove, 27, was filmed hitting sows with a plastic pipe and throwing pigs over a barrier. Both men were filmed picking up pigs by their ears and dropping them on the ground at Harling Farm in Norfolk. The undercover investigator who captured the abuse footage - too graphic to be shown in full below - branded the farm a 'hell hole' and said he saw 'suffering and death' he will never be able to forget.

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