‘It’s a bit like PTSD’: Cambridgeshire villagers react after mystery killing of alpacas and sheep

Residents say they are still ‘shocked and horrified’ after farm animals shot dead in East Hatley

The last time Mick Marshall can recall a crime happening in Hatley, John Major was still the prime minister. “We got broken into in 1996 and that’s it. That was a long time ago,” he said.

The 81-year-old runs the Hatley Shop and Post Office with his wife, a quaint little shop shrouded in green shrubbery. The Cambridgeshire village, which is hidden up a long country road lined with small farms, is so quiet that some days Marshall serves nary a soul. “Sometimes we don’t have any customers, sometimes it’s two or three,” he said.