Police are investigating after three birds were found shot by an air rifle in a Powys garden.

Dyfed-Powys Police are appealing for information about an incident in New Radnor where three birds were found dead in a garden over a one-week period.

The force’s Rural Crime Team have said that an air rifle was heard in the area during at least one of the shootings.

The force reminded the public that “it is an offence to fire an air rifle pellet beyond the land where you have permission to shoot, unless the person holding the shooting rights of the neighbouring land has given you permission”.

“Where someone under the age of 14 is shooting, both the young person and the supervising adult can be prosecuted.”

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The police added that “it is also against the law to discharge any firearm (including air rifles) within 50 feet of the centre of a highway (which consists of or comprises a carriageway) IF in consequence a user of the highway is injured, interrupted or endangered.

“These offences could be committed, for example, when a person is shooting in their garden close to a public highway and a pellet ricochets onto the highway and injures someone.”

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A spokesperson for Dyfed-Powys Police said: “Our Rural Crime Team are investigating an incident in the New Radnor area following a report of three birds being found dead in a residential garden on three separate occasions over a one-week period.

“On one of the occasions it is believed that an air rifle shot was heard.”

If you have any information you can contact the Rural Crime team via their email: RuralCrimeTeam@dyfed-powys.police.uk  or via Crimestoppers - 0800 555 111.