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A 51-year-old man pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court in Launceston to stealing dairy cows worth more than half a million dollars between 2018 and 2020.
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Peter Whynn Jones of Cluan near Westbury in northern Tasmania pleaded guilty to stealing the cows from a company named Moo and You Finance Pty Ltd.
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Justice Robert Pearce accepted his guilty plea through defence counsel Grant Tucker on Monday.
The court heard that electronic devices in the ears of the cattle established that they were the property of others.
He was bailed to appear at a sentencing hearing on August 11.
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