By Rob Cooper PUBLISHED: 04:22 EST, 22 May 2013 | UPDATED: 11:57 EST, 23 May 2013 Two friends battered a sheep to death with a hammer and cut off its legs in a field so they could have a free roast dinner, a court heard. Matthew Davidson, 28, and Kevin Sherratt, 33, stole the mutilated remains and paraded the animal's head around. But their drunken prank on a farm in Macclesfield, Cheshire, backfired when they sent photos of what they had done to a friend who alerted police. Mutilation: Matthew Davidson, 28, can be seen attacking the lamb which had two of its legs removed and its head torn off in Macclesfield, Cheshire
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Matthew Davidson, 28, and Kevin Sherratt, 33, admit mutilating the animal
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They were caught after sending pictures of the killing to a friend
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Sherratt boasted to the friend that the incident had been 'well funny'
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The police found bags containing the animal's body parts and bloodied tools in a shed at @placeholder's home.