A man who cruelly mistreated bobby calves will now serve jail time after originally being sentenced to home detention. Photo: ODT filesNoel Erickson (38) was secretly filmed kicking, hitting and throwing bobby calves while working as a casual slaughterman at pet food business Down Cow in Waikato. He was sentenced to 10 months' home detention and 200 hours community work in July this year. The home detention sentence was quashed in the High Court at Hamilton today, and Erickson will now serve two years in prison. Erickson had completed three months of his 10-month home detention sentence.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 07, 2016 04:52 UTC