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Fine for dealer who sold horse with severe laminitis
23 April, 2009
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A Cheshire horse trader has been fined for selling a horse unfit to be ridden.
The case against Samantha Atkins of Broughton was brought by Pembrokeshire County Council under the Trades Descriptions Act 1968.
She pleaded guilty to selling a falsely-described horse.
Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court heard on Monday (20 April) how in January 2008 the horse was advertised online as a “safe, sensible, perfect horse” with no vices or faults.
A buyer tried the horse and bought it for £2,500 without having it vetted. On delivery the horse was chronically lame.
A vet found the horse to have long-standing and incurable chronic laminitis and it was put to sleep.
Ms Atkins was ordered to pay fines, costs and compensation amounting to £4,115.
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