A farmer who was jailed for 12 months after hiring diggers and an 18-ton bulldozer to illegally strip trees and vegetation from riverbanks has had his prison term reduced on appeal.
A farmer jailed for 12 months after hiring diggers and an 18-ton bulldozer to illegally strip trees and vegetation from riverbanks in Herefordshire has had his prison term reduced on appeal.
However, he declined to suspend the sentence, telling Price: “Given the breadth of the offending over an extended period of time … there is a need for deterrence in any sentence we impose. The judge said: “To put it simply this was outrageous behaviour committed over a period of time in a planned manner, involving hiring of machinery and operatives and it was persistent.
Preceding an initial bout of bank clearance and dredging in November 2020, Price, who owns and farms the land, had cleared a copse of 70 mature trees, flouting the SSSI protections, then laid an area of nearby hard-standing. The judge said he sentenced “on the basis these were all deliberate offences, given Price breached and flagrantly disregarded the law”.
Judge Cole added that rather than reduce flooding risk, “subsequent investigation by the Environment Agency and Natural England have noted that his actions may, in fact, in due course make matters worse”.
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