CONVICTED (2017) | Megan Green, born c. 1996, of River View Caravan Park, Mill Lane, Brigg DN20 8NY – for multiple counts of cruelty towards three horses
Gypsy traveller Green caused unnecessary suffering to a thoroughbred mare called Imi, by failing to provide veterinary care for her “chronic wounds” and subsequent bacterial infection, leading to illness and collapse; and failed to maintain her condition.
She also failed to maintain an appropriate body condition for a Shetland pony called Tidler.
All those offences took place at King St Paddocks, Oakley Carr, Woodmansey, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire.
She also, at Mill Lane, Brigg, failed to provide adequate hoof care for Tidler, a gelding called Maverick, and a gelding called Zac.
Sentencing: 10 days of rehabilitation activity. Ordered to pay £300 costs and an £85 surcharge. Banned from keeping equine animals for ten years.
Megan Green was not a traveller, this may of been her address at the time of sentencing but was not raised a traveller but grew up in West Hull and east riding village for college.