Jeremy Clarkson’s stolen sheep ‘are probably dead already’ as fears star was victim of targeted hit grow
We told yesterday how the TV star had the ewes swiped from his 1,000-acre Diddly Squat Farm.
Asked who fans should tell if they have any information, he said: “Me! Come to the farm and let me know.
“I know it sounds ridiculous but Easycares are quite distinctive sheep. They’ve got a very pointy face.”
Farmhand and Clarkson’s Farm co-star Kaleb Cooper believes the rustlers took 11 as they only had a small trailer.
He fears the sheep have already been slaughtered as keeping them risks arrest.
Kaleb explained: “They have got our own tag. It’s fairly easy to cut that out and put another in. But if I went to your flock I could tell which is mine and which is yours.
“Every neighbour knows what their sheep look like.
“The police have got to be on this (theft), because it is happening more often.”
A source from a local farm said: “A raid like this needs some planning and it could well be that whoever did this knows who owned the sheep.”
Yesterday Jezza kicked off the Hawkstone harvest festival at his Farmer’s Dog pub near Burford, Oxon.
He added of his animals: “It’s the weirdest relationship. You know they’re going to be sold in the pub and other people are going to eat them.
“But you don’t half love them when you’ve got them.”
