Jimmy Price was today found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to a horse and two dogs. A video played to the court showed the dogs, Scout and Tramp, untethered and unfed at the 25-year-old’s home address in Forstal Farm, Loose.
The father-of-two was previously convicted in December after repeatedly stabbing a deer. He was also caught hare coursing. Footage of the stabbing was played at the time.
Price, who was already serving a suspended sentence for theft offences, has previously been convicted of causing unnecessary suffering to dogs.
On Friday 10th January 2020, Price was jailed for seven and a half months. He will spend half of it in custody. Magistrates in Medway ordered him to pay £5,115 in costs and charges and he was given a five year order banning him from keeping dogs.
Price’s dogs and the horse were seized during an RSPCA raidon Forstal Farm in March last year.
Samuel Powell had three horses seized during the same raid, having had a mare and its foal seized two months prior.
On Friday 10th January 2020, Powell was found guilty of four counts of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal and a fifth charge of failing to ensure the welfare of an animal. The five charges relate to the five horses seized from Forstal Farm. The father from Forstal Road, Lenham was jailed for 26 weeks, he will serve half of that sentence.
Powell, a horse salesman, must pay £5,000 along with a victim surcharge of £115. He was banned from owning horses for five years. He can appeal after one year.
A third man, Danny Price, from Victoria Court, East Farleigh, also appeared in court for sentencing, having previously admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a bay horse, in return a second charge of causing suffering to a bay mare, a black mare and a piebald mare, was dropped. The bay horse was found dead next to a hay bale during the RSPCA raid in March 2019. It had starved to death.
Magistrates heard the 29-year-old had stopped looking after the horse as he was in the process of selling it, and thought it was the new owner’s responsibility.
The qualified jockey was given a 12 month community order. He will have to carry out 150 hours unpaid work and pay £1,585.
Source: Kent Online
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