Police launch Probe after Dead Swan Found in Andover Lake
Police officers from Hampshire Constabulary have launched an investigating after a swan was found to have been killed at Anton Lakes in Andover.
PC Stephen Rogerson of the Hampshire Constabulary Country Watch team said: “This is a sad incident which has happened at a popular local nature reserve which is frequented by many people.
It is an isolated incident and it does not look like the swan has been killed by a predator, but there is suggestion that it has been killed for food in the way in which it had been butchered.
“Swans have statutory protection under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and it is an offence to intentionally injure, take or kill a wild swan.”
Anyone with information about this, or knows who is responsible should contact PC Rogerson on 101 quoting 44160056158.
