Warning on lay-by carcass dumping

The remains are thought to be a result of game-processing

Fly-tippers have been told not to dump the remains of rabbits and pigeons in lay-bys in Lincolnshire.

The warning came after a family who stopped for a picnic on Bank Holiday Monday found the carcasses in a lay-by on the A16 at Kirton near Boston.

Hundreds of dead pigeons, rabbit paws and guts - the result of game processing - had been flung out of a vehicle on to land nearby.

Boston Borough Council said it was the second such incident in three weeks.

On 3 April dumped rabbit remains had to be removed from a lay-by by the A17 near Bicker.

Philip Jackson of Boston Borough Council said: "There are far too many carcasses and bits of waste for it to be a small enterprise. It's someone that is processing on a reasonable scale and selling the proceeds of the processing, the carcass meat, to various outlets possibly.

"And this is the waste which is difficult and expensive to get rid of and they're taking an easy option and dumping it by the roadside."

He appealed to legitimate game processors for help in tracking down the people responsible and warned that the culprits faced prosecution.