The owner of an Essex poultry business has been given a suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay £12,524 after 6,000 chickens died of heat exhaustion.Farmer Paul Flatman, 65, trading as Paul Flatman Farms, of Packards Lane, Wormingford, was also banned from being involved in the poultry business for five years when he appeared for sentencing at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court today (Friday).He had already pleaded guilty to six charges under the Animal Welfare Act at an earlier...
