CONVICTED (2018) | Sarah Burnham, born 10 March 1991, and Louise Wood, born c. 1957, formerly of Hunloke Road, Holmewood, Chesterfield S42 5RZ – mistreated 19 dogs and three cats who were kept in filth and squalor.
Sarah Burnham and Louise Wood mistreated 19 dogs and three cats while they were being kept at a former shared address on Hunloke Road, Holmewood, Chesterfield.
The animals were kept in appalling conditions in dark rooms with excrement.
The pair pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to the animals by subjecting them to an environment which was detrimental to their wellbeing between October 2017 and January 2018.
Sentencing |
Burnham, now of no fixed abode, and Wood, now of Edensor Court, Middlecroft, Chesterfield, were both fined £360 each and were each ordered to pay a £36 victim surcharge and £300 costs. Both Wood and Burnham were disqualified from keeping animals for life and no application to lift the order will be allowed for ten years.