2026-10-14 · Daily Mail
🔮 Steven Woolger, 48, was warned at a hearing in June that he faced a possible jail sentence after he admitted eight animal cruelty offences.
But District Judge Matthew Bone today gave him a 17-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, after being told that he had mental health issues at the time of the sickening abuse.
Great Yarmouth Magistrates Court heard how animal rights activists had placed hidden cameras at the boar stud farm where Woolger was working at Burgh Castle, Norfolk.
The 781 hours of secret filming included clips of him mistreating the animals at the Innovis Gene Centre East premises between May and September 2024.
The covert footage was handed over by Animal Justice Project to Norfolk Trading Standards, which brought the prosecution. assertive