Mutilated pony found dead in a ditch in Hampshire
Police are investigating after a dead and mutilated pony was found in a ditch in Hampshire.
The coloured pony was discovered on Hook Road, in Greywell on Monday, 3 January.
Police believed the pony was dumped sometime between 25 December and 3 January.
A spokesman from the RSPCA told H&H that the carcass was found with its organs removed.
A police spokesman told press: “At this stage we are unsure how the pony died.”
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A graduate of Exeter University, Amy joined our news team from Redpin Publishing in 2008 as news writer. She was promoted to deputy news editor in May 2013 and became news editor in April 2015. She left Horse & Hound in March 2016 to take up an editorial position in Dubai.