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Man detained after guilty to lamb theft, religious harassment

8/3/2026

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Benjamin Lewis was detained under Mental Health Act after pleading guilty to five counts of religiously aggravated harassment and two counts of lamb theft in 2025.
Judge William Mousley KC ordered detention, saying offences would merit prison, after Lewis left lambs and inverted crosses at New Forest churches and police matched DNA from a lamb and deer blood in his car.
Psychiatrist diagnosed autism, OCD, mixed personality disorder.

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Benjamin Lewis was detained under Mental Health Act after pleading guilty to five counts of religiously aggravated harassment and two counts of lamb theft in 2025.
Judge William Mousley KC ordered detention, saying offences would merit prison, after Lewis left lambs and inverted crosses at New Forest churches and police matched DNA from a lamb and deer blood in his car.
Psychiatrist diagnosed autism, OCD, mixed personality disorder.