The bull would have been viewed by the World Congress of Red Poll Breed come next year when the group visits Jamaica.

Unfortunately, three Mondays ago, its owner, Tony Browne, woke up to find its head and its intestines littered across his pasture in YS, St Elizabeth.

Speaking with The Gleaner last week about the loss of his prized bull to thieves, Browne said he was "still distressed".

The 2,000-pound hybrid red poll bull had been in the family for nine years.

Harsh reality

'Bandit', as he was named by the Brownes, was valued at $200,000. His meat could fetch up to $160,000.

The bull had fathered many cattle currently spread across St Thomas, Westmoreland and St Ann.

Browne is finding it hard to believe that his prized bull was not only stolen, but butchered.

He revealed that the Government had also bought Bandit's offspring and taken them to Minard Estate, a leading livestock farm.

"Genetically, his price is incalculable. That bull is irreplaceable," Browne added.

Bandit was not the only cattle Browne lost to thieves in that wretched act of three weeks ago.