Award-winning young farmer shot dead in field

A murder investigation has been launched after an award-winning young farmer was shot dead.

Charles Kinston, 23, was found in a field off Brizlincote Lane in Bretby, a tiny village on the border of Derbyshire and Staffordshire.

Police were called to the farmland on January 29 shortly before 6.30pm and the farmer was pronounced dead at the scene. News of the incident was only released by detectives this week.

A man in his 30s was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder and has been released on bail while an investigation continues.

Mr Kinston had won a third-place accolade in a Farmers Weekly inventions competition in 2020 for a Land Rover Discovery 1 300Tdi he had modified for calf-feeding rounds.