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Animal cruelty conviction

A Swedish man who captured 13,000 wild birds and kept hundreds of them locked up in his home has been convicted of animal cruelty and illegal hunting and sentenced to a year and a half in prison.

The Hudiksvall district court says 39-year-old Pierre Johansson used illegal nets and traps to capture the birds, including owls, falcons, hawks and woodpeckers. He released most of them but the court said Johansson also kept hundreds of birds locked up in cages in his garage.



 

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