A man from Redditch has been remanded on bail after pleading not guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
Alan Pope, aged 65, of Cornhampton Close, Redditch, has been charged with causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal namely a Holstein Friesian cow.
In the charges, he has been accused of attempting go make a recumbent animal get to its feet by "placing his fingers inside its nostrils and grabbing the back of its head with his other hand".
He has also been accused of "not ensuring that the needs of the animal for which he was responsible for were met to the extent required by good practice".
The offences are alleged to have taken place at Foyles abattoir, Cinderford, in Gloucestershire.
Pope has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
He has been remanded on bail until a case management hearing at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court on Monday, May 12.
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