Second man questioned after 50 dead animals dumped outside shop in Hampshire

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A member of staff was opening the store when they encountered the 'horrifying' scene last month. Police were called and found the corpses of hares, a barn owl and a kestrel outside the shop.

A second man has been questioned by police after about 50 dead animals were dumped outside a village shop. A member of staff was opening the Broughton Community Shop in Hampshire when they encountered the 'horrifying' scene on 15 March. Officers were called and found the corpses of hares, a barn owl and a kestrel outside the store.

The owl and kestrel were 'stuffed' on the door handles and blood smeared on the windows, the shop's treasurer said. 'It was bedlam, it was just covered in dead hares, all the way across this paving here, horrifying,' Mike Hensman told Sky News. 'And on the door there was a dead raptor, bird of prey, and an owl impaled on the door handles. And there was blood everywhere.

 

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