Men who repeatedly punched and kicked sheep before blowing it up with fireworks jailed

Leighton Ashby and Oakley Hollands placed fireworks inside a sheep and fatally injured it - (PA)

Two agricultural students who launched a “sadistic” attack on a sheep, which included placing fireworks inside its mouth and body, have been jailed.

Leighton Ashby, 22, and Oakley Hollands, 20, filmed the 30-minute attack on a mobile phone and kept the sheep’s ear tag as a “token”, which was later hidden inside a Monster energy can and discovered inside a communal toilet.