A farmer who shot a dog dead while it was on its owner’s lead after it chased his sheep has been cleared of endangering life.
Kenneth Bone blasted the Siberian husky inches from Sean Campbell, who had been walking the pet before it ran into a field of pregnant ewes and lambs.
He got it back on the lead but Bone believed it would break loose and shot it.
Bone, 64, was accused of recklessly discharging a shotgun after the incident near Lamlash on the Isle of Arran in April 2019 but Kilmarnock sheriff Colin Bissett ruled he had no case to answer.
Bone said: “I had to shoot because the dog’s collar was about to come off and I knew it would go straight to the sheep.
"I would do the same again if I had to.”
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