John Price destroyed habitats and wildlife on an unspoiled stretch of the River Lugg.
By Nicola Goodwin & Vanessa PearceA farmer who hired diggers and bulldozers to illegally rip up trees along the banks of a river has been jailed for 12 months.
The damage was described as the "worst case of riverside destruction" seen by the organisations and they added it could take several decades to be fully restored. In 2020, he was issued with a stop notice by Natural England. He pleaded guilty to failing to comply with that notice and carrying out similar work the following year.
In July 2007 he was prosecuted for creating a dam across a tributary in order to irrigate his potato crop, drying up the river for 1.5km downstream Price had objected to the River Lugg and banks next to his farm being made a site of special scientific interest in February 1995, the court was told.
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