Piggery owners face court on animal cruelty charges

Five co-owners of an Adelaide Plains piggery are collectively accused of ill-treating their animals, including leaving some of the pigs in a "morass of faeces, urine and dirt", court documents allege.

Two of the five co-accused, Andrew William Goss and Alison Louise Goss, appeared in the Elizabeth Magistrates Court for the first time on Tuesday, where an RSPCA lawyer described the matter as "probably the most serious matter [the organisation] has dealt with" during his employment.

The duo, alongside Garry Joseph Tiss and Joan Mary Tiss, are each charged with 31 offences: 16 counts of ill-treatment of an animal and 15 counts of ill-treating an animal to cause death or serious harm.

A fifth person, Lachlan Goss, is charged with 49 counts.

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