SHAMBO the bull has been saved after a High Court judgement quashed an order to kill him because he suffered from bovine TB. The six-year-old Friesian - considered sacred in Hindu culture - was handed a death sentence after testing positive for exposure to bovine tuberculosis.
The Skanda Vale temple community in Llanpumsaint, west Wales, where Shambo is kept, launched a legal challenge to save him. At the Cardiff Civil Justice Centre today, Judge Gary Hickinbottom ruled slaughter would be unlawful and should be reconsidered.
The judge said: "This judgment does not, of course, guarantee that, as the Community wish, Shambo will live until he dies a natural death.
"This judgment merely rules that the decisions of 3 May and 3 July to issue the slaughter notice and to pursue the slaughter under that notice were unlawful and will be quashed."
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