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Chicken sacrifice

Tuesday 01 September 1992 23:02 BST
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A man who sacrificed poultry to the gods of an ancient South American religion was found guilty of cruelly terrifying a chicken by crushing its head with a mallet. Ivan Pope, 29, of Chichester, West Sussex, had now given up the religion, magistrates were told. He was conditionally discharged.

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