Wildlife filmmaker crushed to death searching for sheep

A FARMER who filmed documentaries for Sir David Attenborough was crushed to death by a tractor while searching for a runaway sheep.

Timothy Green took a steep route down fields in a vehicle suitable only for use on flat terrain, while his all-purpose tractor was being repaired.

Mr Green was working at his farm, Village Farm Organics in Salcombe, south Devon, when the incident happened last February.

Plymouth Coroner’s Court heard he had been looking for a ram that had previously got into a field of ewes that were not fit for breeding.

The inquest jury heard he died from traumatic crush injuries.

Mr Green and his partner Rebecca Hoskings’s business was a sustainable agricultural farm which they created after filming documentaries around the world.

He had directed work for Sir David and also produced his own films about species and habitats.

At the same time, Ms Hoskings worked at the BBC’S Natural History Unit.

The coroner recorded a conclusion of accidental death.