John Price used diggers and bulldozers to illegally rip out trees along a 1.5km stretch of the protected River Lugg in Kingsland, Herefordshire. He claimed the works were to help prevent flooding to local properties.
A farmer who used diggers and bulldozers to illegally rip out trees along a riverbank has been jailed for 12 months.
Natural England and the Environment Agency said it was the worst riverside destruction they had seen and could take several decades to be fully restored. Price was sentenced at Kidderminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday - the first prosecution under farming rules for water which were introduced to boost good practice and to reduce and prevent water pollution.
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