A NORTH Wales farmer will be sentenced next month after admitting a string of animal cruelty charges. Owen Arfon Jones appeared before magistrates in Pwllheli to answer charges brought by Gwynedd trading standards. The 43-year-old, of Bron Miod Farm, Llanaelhaearn, near Pwllheli, admitted nine charges of animal cruelty, failing to dispose of carcasses and failing to keep proper records. He denied five other charges which were withdrawn after the authority offered no evidence. Alwyn Jones, prosecuting for Gwynedd council, told the court the offences happened between September and October 2005. The first charge of causing unnecessary suffering to a Welsh mountain ram, brought under the Protection of Animals Act 1911, is alleged to have occurred on September 21. A second charge of causing unnecessary suffering to a lamb was dated September 22. | 
