Sandridge Farmhouse Bacon
Animal Welfare Offences

Animal welfare and food hygiene offences. Documented here by bringing together available press reports about Sandridge Farmhouse Bacon Limited and Roger Keen Farms Limited.

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Sandridge Farmhouse Bacon Limited is, as at 9 August 2024, in creditors' voluntary liquidation and is under the control of a professional liquidator whose job it is to wind up the company's affairs after paying off its creditors from any available surplus. It was one of the companies behind the product brand Sandridge Farmhouse Bacon. Before the liquidator assumed control, the company was managed by Roger Keen and Rosemary Keen and was operated at premises known as Sandridge Farm, located in Bromham in Wiltshire. Roger Keen Farms Limited is also located and operated at Sandridge Farm.

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Roger Keen Farms Limited stopped keeping pigs at Sandridge Farm in 2022 (per Calne News, 12 June 2024; see "Press Reports" tab), after an abattoir reported the condition of the pigs being brought to the abattoir from Sandridge Farm, leading to the premises being inspected in August and September 2021 by the Animal & Plant Health Agency (APHA).

 

Following that inspection, a prosecution initiated by Wiltshire Council resulted in Roger Keen Farms Limited being brought before Bristol Crown Court in June 2024 and convicted of several offences under the Animal Welfare Act. Sandridge Farmhouse Bacon Limited does not get a mention in the press reporting of the trial and sentencing of Roger Keen Farms Limited, despite at the time being managed by Roger Keen and Rosemary Keen and sharing the same premises at Sandridge Farm in Bromham, Wiltshire.

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Whilst their company, Roger Keen Farms Limited, was charged and convicted of these animal welfare offences, Roger Keen and Rosemary Keen got off scot-free. 

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The judge considered a £29,162 fine for Roger Keen Farms Limited as "fair and appropriate". This is a company which, as at 30 April 2023 (the most recent date for which its accounts are publicly available, on the Companies House website) had £240,176 in the bank and total assets of more than £1.2 million.

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As at the same date (30 April 2023) Sandridge Farmhouse Bacon Limited had £62,740 in the bank and total assets of nearly £375,000. 

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Ten of the pigs that APHA found at Sandridge Farm had to be euthanised (per BBC Wiltshire, 11 June 2024; see "Press Reports" tab). 

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An expert witness at the trial said that Roger Keen "was responsible for multiple counts of permitting unnecessary suffering to pigs under his care and responsibility" (per Calne News, 12 June 2024; see "Press Reports" tab).

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The purpose of this site is to set out - verbatim, with nothing added or taken away -  all press reporting that dates back to 2010 about the people and companies behind Sandridge Farmhouse Bacon, including Roger Keen Farms Limited. This is done in the interests of decent people who are disgusted by the mistreatment of animals, and of consumers who have a right to know what kind of people and businesses produced the meat they eat.

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