Cheshire man jailed for starving filly
A man from Cheshire has been jailed for four months for allowing a filly to become severely emaciated.
Leslie John Dee, of Sandford Avenue, Gorton, was banned from looking after a horse or dog for seven years by Macclesfield magistrates on 8 January. He also may not deal in or transport horses.
The bay pony had to be put down by RSPCA inspectors after it was found collapsed in mud at a property in Disley in January 2008.
It also had a severe parasitic infestation.
The court heard Dee had 20 years’ experience of looking after horses.
This article was first published in Horse & Hound (22 January, ’09)
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.