This is the moment a farmer stole sheep from a livestock market in the middle of the night before he sold them as his own.
Over a seven-year period, Peter Parker carried hundreds of sheep from across England in a series of major livestock thefts.
In one particularly daring heist in 2017, the 60-year-old stole a staggering 650 animals from Newark Livestock Market – worth an estimated £23,000.
He stole a further 50 sheep from Penrith and District Farmers Mart and 23 from Hereford Livestock Market.
Last week, Parker – from Brant Broughton in Lincolnshire – was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison at Nottingham Crown
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