A grandad who plucked a beloved chook named ‘Betty White’ from a wildlife park enclosure before tossing it into a pool of hungry alligators is now set to appeal the severity of his sentence.

A Hunter Valley grandfather has been spared jail after he threw a live chicken into an alligator pen at a wildlife park. Peter William Smith will instead serve his nine-month sentence in the ...

A Hunter Region grandad who narrowly avoided jail time for chucking a chook named ‘Betty White’ into an alligator enclosure at a local wildlife park has been given a more lenient sentence.