Farmer couple’s outrage after they caught man, 25, who had been having sex with their cows for seven years but he is not sent to prison

•  Ian Farwell found Liam Brown on their cattle farm in Burton, Dorset
•  Brown admitted the offence and was ordered to pay Mr Farwell £600
• Tracey Farwell believed the 25-year-old should have been sent to prison

A farmer and wife are ‘outraged’ after a depraved pervert who was caught sneaking into their cowshed and having sex with a calf has avoided jail.

Ian Farwell found Liam Brown, 25, with his trousers down, hands on either side of a calf and his hips moving backward and forwards on their cattle farm in Burton, Dorset.

Police discovered Mr Brown had been interfering with the cows at the farm for seven years and a DNA sample taken from the calf proved sexual intercourse had taken place on June 12, 2022.

Brown admitted the offence and was ordered to pay Mr Farwell £600 compensation by a judge who called it a ‘very alarming, bizarre and worrying case’.

Mr Farwell’s wife, Tracey, believed Mr Brown should have been sent to prison, after investigations showed that he had used a belt to restrain the cows.

Ian Farwell (right) and Tracey Farwell (left) are ‘outraged’ after a depraved pervert who was caught sneaking into their cowshed and having sex with a calf has avoided jail

Mr Farwell found Liam Brown, 25, with his trousers down, hands on either side of a calf and his hips moving backward and forwards on their cattle farm in Burton, Dorset

Mrs Farwell said: ‘I think he should have gone to prison.

‘It was a horrendous time for us. He told police it was going on for seven years on and off.

‘It was my job to feed the calves. They would be fine when I left them at night and then I would find them ill in the morning and struggling to breathe.

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‘I thought they had pneumonia so I was trying to treat them for that but it was actually because he was strangling them with his belt.

‘He took his belt off to tie the calf to the gate.’

Mr Farwell was alerted to suspicious activity in the cowshed on the night he discovered the sickening truth, rushing outside with son Ralph to find Mr Brown molesting one of the calves.

He had previously found surgical gloves and discarded clothing in the cattle pen.

Having been caught, the depraved pervert tried to flee, only to jump over a gate, land in another pen and be trampled by a frightened cow.

Brown, who had suffered an ankle injury, told the farmer ‘sorry, I’ve f….d up’, before being taken away by police.

Mr Brown’s father had previously worked on the farm, owned by the Farwell family since 1879, as a tractor driver for 17 years.

Mr Farwell was alerted to suspicious activity in the cowshed on the night he discovered the sickening truth, rushing outside with son Ralph to find Mr Brown molesting one of the calves

Mr Brown’s father had previously worked on the farm, owned by the Farwell family since 1879, as a tractor driver for 17 years

The Farwell family had found surgical gloves and items of clothing left behind and several young calves had died in unexplained circumstances

When some of the calves started dying without any explanation, the Farewell family tried changing their food to giving them medicine for pneumonia, but nothing seemed to help.

They accused their trusted suppliers of not carrying out proper checks on the animals.

Mr Farwell said seeing the animals distressed was ‘soul-destroying’.  

He added: ‘Calves were becoming poorly and dying for no apparent reason.

‘But it was due to the unthinkable actions of the defendant. The animals are really important to me, seeing them distressed was soul-destroying.

‘It put a real strain on the family, we all blamed each other but the truth was something we could not comprehend.’

Mr Brown, of Bournemouth, admitted one charge of sexual penetration with a living animal and one offence of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.

Judge Keith Cutler said the case was ‘very alarming, bizarre and worrying’ but ruled a long community order would be ‘more constructive’ than sending Brown to prison.

When some of the calves started dying without any explanation, the Farewell family tried changing their food to giving them medicine for pneumonia, but nothing seemed to help

The defendant was also ordered to pay £600 compensation to Mr Farwell, who had lost thousands of pounds due to the premature deaths of several calves which he suspects was caused by Brown.

Mr Farwell said 20 calves had died prematurely, adding: ‘We can’t prove it 100 per cent, they could have been ill. But since it stopped last year we have only had two or three die. It has cost us tens of thousands.’ 

Olivia McGonigle, defending, said: ‘He doesn’t live anywhere near the farm and has no intention of working with livestock. He is living with his mother, but there is the possibility of him moving in with his girlfriend, who has been a very supportive person.

‘He has expressed how remorseful he is. He is distressed by the pain he has caused.’

Brown was sentenced Brown to a three-year community order with rehabilitation requirements and 150 hours of unpaid work and disqualified from keeping livestock for ten years.

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