Sandridge Farmhouse Bacon
Animal Welfare Offences
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.
Sandridge Farmhouse Bacon Limited was managed by Roger Keen and Rosemary Keen and operated at premises known as Sandridge Farm, located in Bromham in Wiltshire. Another two companies managed by Roger Keen, namely Roger Keen Farms Limited and Rowde Croft Poultry Limited, are also located and operated at Sandridge Farm.
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.
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.
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 accounting date that was available to the court) had £240,176 in the bank and total assets of more than £1.2 million.
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.
Ten of the pigs that APHA found at Sandridge Farm had to be euthanised (per BBC Wiltshire, 11 June 2024; see "Press Reports" tab).
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).
No doubt realising, following the trial and attendant press reporting of the crimes, that they could no longer make money from such a toxic brand, Roger and Rosemary Keen had Sandridge Farmhouse Bacon placed into voluntary liquidation in 2024, a legal process that completed in January 2026, during which time the company's unpaid employees and unpaid creditors were put through the mill. The company was finally dissolved in April 2026. Good riddance to bad corporate rubbish.
Shame on the company's auditors, Pearson May in Trowbridge (https://www.pearsonmay.co.uk/contact/trowbridge-office/) who continued to take the Keens' money by acting as the company's auditors before and after the trial, in full knowledge of the crimes committed. This firm continues (as at January 2026) to provide accountancy services to the Keens' other two companies, Roger Keen Farms Limited and Rowde Croft Poultry Limited.
Shame on those retailers who continue to source animal products from the Keens' companies in full knowledge of the crimes committed.
Sandridge Farmhouse Bacon may be dissolved. But the toxic brand and the people behind it linger on, in the form of Roger Keen Farms Limited and Rowde Croft Poultry Limited, still operating at Sandridge Farm under the management of the Keens. Rowde Croft Poultry is described by other sources as an "intensive poultry farm"; one wonders what the conditions are like for the animals there.
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. All information correct as at May 2026.