Trout farm in Cotswolds tourist hotspot accused of welfare abuses

Exclusive: Charity says footage shows fish being struck repeatedly and at least one child taking part in killing fish

Animal welfare campaigners allege that a harrowing series of welfare abuses" have taken place at one of England's oldest working trout farms in a tourist hotspot in the Cotswolds, including the participation of children in killing fish.

Animal Equality UK, a charity that works to end cruelty to farmed animals, has released video footage that it claims shows fish being repeatedly beaten with batons, mishandled and left to suffocate by untrained members of the public including a child at Bibury trout farm in Gloucestershire.