Robert Carr, 28, was sentenced to 20 months for the bizarre attack, described by authorities as “beyond comprehension”. Miranda Clark, 39, will spend up to eight months in jail. Carr and Clark pleaded guilty to charges of animal cruelty, child cruelty, destroying property and owning an illegal knife.
“Their initial attack on a defenseless animal seems to have served no purpose beyond providing some sort of twisted entertainment for the pair,” prosecutor Gerry Sydenham said. “Not content with killing and mutilating the rare sheep, they then went on to traumatise a group of local children with the animal’s severed head, before discarding it as an afterthought in a neighbour’s yard.