FarmerBobby Waugh FMD Court Case

Farmer Bobby Waugh arrives at Bedlington Magistrates court, Northumberland to face charges of failing to notify authorities of the existence of foot-and-mouth disease and causing suffering to animals. * 30/5/02: Judgment was expected to be given in the case of a farmer accused of failing to notify officials of foot-and-mouth disease discovered in his pigs at the start of last year's devastating outbreak. Pig farmer Bobby Waugh who was a supplier of the abattoir where the disease was first found was accused of a range of 15 animal health and cruelty charges after the virus was discovered at his fattening unit in Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland in February last year. Waugh accused of failing to notify officials of foot-and-mouth disease discovered in his pigs at the start of last year's devastating outbreak. Waugh who was a supplier of the abattoir where the disease was first found was accused of a range of 15 animal health and cruelty charges after the virus was discovered at his fattening unit in Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland. *28/06/02 Pig farmer Bobby Waugh, who was accused of being at the centre of last year's foot-and-mouth outbreak, was Friday June 28 2002, banned from keeping farm animals for 15 years at South East Northumberland Magistrates Court. A District Judge also ordered that Waugh be electronically tagged for three months. (Photo by David Cheskin - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)