FOUR Wimmera shearers faced Horsham Magistrate’s Court on Friday to learn their fate after they were changed with animal cruelty in February.
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Natimuk’s Bradley James Arnold, Horsham’s Jake Lachlan Williams, Hamilton’s Lindsay David Gillin and Keith’s Graham Ivan Batson pleaded guilty in February.
The cruelty charges followed a campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals where activists gained work as rouseabouts in 2013 and fitted themselves with cameras to film shearers at work.
Arnold, 39, pleaded guilty to 26 charges, relating to incidents at a shearing shed at Nurrabiel in October 2013.
He was convicted and fined $3500 and disqualified from owning or being in charge of sheep for two years.
Williams, 23, pleaded guilty to 22 charges, relating to his work at a Nurrabiel shearing shed in October 2013.
He was convicted and fined $2000 and disqualified from owning or being in charge of sheep for one year.
Batson, 49, pleaded guilty to six charges, relating to incidents from November and December 2013 at Poolaijelo.
He was convicted and fined $3000 and disqualified from owning or being in charge of sheep for two years.
Gillin, 61, pleaded guilty to six charges, relating to incidents from February 2014 at Moyston.
He was convicted and fined $2000 and disqualified from owning or being in charge of sheep for one year.
