CONVICTED (2023) | farmer Kim Norman Rendall, born c. 1958, of 23 Southover Road, High Littleton, Bristol BS39 6HR – dragged a dog behind a car and failed to seek treatment for the animal’s horrific injuries.
Rendall admitted causing unnecessary suffering to the dog – a nine-year-old white husky named Daisy – after she was dragged along a road by a rope attached to his car.
Dashcam footage showed the dog in a state of “complete distress” as she was dragged “bouncing” along the road while “scrabbling to try and stay up”
The court heard how drivers pressed their horns and flashed their lights as they watched Daisy dragged down the road while tied with rope to the rear of a red Nissan Micra.
On hearing one of the motorists shouting ‘dog, dog’ out of a window, a woman – who was with her own dogs – flagged the car down.
At that point, Rendall stopped and was swiftly confronted by distressed locals as Daisy haemorrhaged blood onto the road and attempted to stand up.
One woman said she’d take Daisy to the vet for urgent care if Rendall was not going to. He smirked and laughed, saying: ‘I’ll do what I want, it’s my dog.’
When police went to check on the dog’s welfare, they found Rendall having a cup of tea and getting his hair cut by his sister. He refused to tell officers where the dog was.
One officer was heard on bodycam asking him “where is that dog?” numerous times but Rendall did not answer directly, saying “I don’t like this at all. I don’t like this at f**king all”.
In custody, it was noted that his trainers were soaked in blood. He was described as rude and aggressive towards officers when they booked him in.
The court was told he continued to refuse to tell officers where Daisy was when being questioned at the police station.
In the meantime, 18 police officers and a drone unit were deployed in a bid to locate Daisy and get her the life-saving treatment they believed she needed.
Following a two and a half hour hunt in the Somerset countryside, she was located in a cow barn in Gossard Lane, High Littleton.
She was rushed to Rosemary Lodge Veterinary Hospital in Bath in a police vehicle travelling on blue lights and sirens.
Vets said she sustained complicated and traumatic injuries – including both hind legs suffering full-thickness skin loss and an open fracture of a foot.
Despite the best efforts of vets to treat Daisy, her pain could not be controlled and she was put to sleep nine days later.
Rendall admitted failing to protect the dog from pain, injury and suffering and failing to arrange urgently-required veterinary attention.
The prosecution was brought by the RSPCA.
The court was told that Daisy had belonged to Rendall’s son.
The court was shown videos of the incident and photographs of Daisy’s injuries.
Some in the court, including witnesses from the day, could not watch the screens when these were shown because they were so graphic.
In a victim impact statement read to the court, one witness said she had “never seen an animal with such serious injuries” and had suffered from nightmares since.
Another said they had been signed off work to help them sleep and still were “getting flashbacks to that day months later”.
PC Natalie Cosgrove, then animal welfare officer for Avon and Somerset Police, was at the vets when Daisy was brought in and interviewed Rendall the following day.
Officer Cosgrove read her own statement in court, where she said in 15 years of policing it was “the worst thing I have ever seen” and it will haunt her forever.
She said: “I was shocked at what I saw. I was horrified and physically sick that a nine-year-old dog was subjected to this cruelty.”
She said: “When I first saw the injuries I welled up in tears.
‘I felt shocked, I couldn’t sleep and I cried… I hugged my own dog crying in sympathy for Daisy’, she told the court in a victim person statement.
“Rendall showed no remorse for his actions.
“He was almost smirking in interview.”
She said: ‘I just felt incredibly sorry for her, that a human let her down so badly. This is one of those jobs that will haunt me forever.’
In tears, RSPCA Inspector Kim Walters comforted visibly upset PC Cosgrove in the public gallery as the case continued.
Prosecutor Lundi Meyer told the magistrates that Rendall’s refusal to provide Daisy’s whereabouts was ‘sadistic’ and only prolonged her suffering.
Rendall claimed the dog was tied up in the boot of the car but must have jumped or fallen out and he did not see or hear the car behind flashing and beeping at him to stop.
His representative in court described the incident as “poor judgement on that day” and said “he has learning difficulties and hearing problems”.
They said the incident had “devastated” Rendall’s family.
Magistrates said Rendall had shown a “deliberate disregard for the welfare of Daisy” and that “a haircut and a cup of tea were a higher priority” for him.
Sentencing | 8-month suspended prison sentence; 300 hours of unpaid work; £5000 costs and a 20-year ban on keeping animals, apart from cattle and koi fish.
Additional Information
Rendall is understood to be employed by Frome Livestock Auctioneers.
Oh my god. The I’ve got learning disabilities card. And he’s deaf… seriously… your sick and twisted. I hope the justice system gives you a jail term and not a silly weeks one. And a fine and a ban for life from keeping any animal.
They are dirty fucking cunts and I hope he, his son and his whole family gets cancer.
You are an evil , sadistic , monster of a human being !
I pray you absolutely rot in hell you beast
RIP poor Daisy
As a husky owner, I hope he gets gang-raped while he’s inside.
Me too! The f#cking bastard!!
Sadly he will not go to jail unless he breaks the law again. The tories used to be the party representing law and order but now all the criminals get are suspended sentences.
Smirking outside court with that pair of creeps . Possibly he has dementia in which case how is he running a farm ,driving or doing anything else without supervision ? Does it suit his family hence their support for him? Something weird going on here.
Farmers are an unfeeling group that’s why they hunt and have allowed themselves to become desensitizes and should be prevented from farming animals and grow crops for direct human consumption
That’s utter rubbish. He’s not even a farmer he lives on a housing estate. I’ve literally just seen this report unintentionally and am sick and traumatised by it. I’m just off to his address with my baseball bat
i’ll join u – was thinking exact same thing. this sick fuck lives in next village and the incident happened in my village.
I will come with you
He’s been allowed to keep his cattle – they should have been taken off him immediately
Farmers are an unfeeling group that’s why they hunt and have allowed themselves to become desensitizes and should be prevented from farming animals and grow crops for direct human consumption
Dont paint all farmers with same brush. Majority of farmers are decent people. This one and his family deserve all the wrath directed at them. Hideously cruel. Inexcusable and inhumane.
Possibly but for me personally to farm animals, get to know them and then send them to be slaughtered there is a cut off point of empathy
Totally agree. But he’s not a farmer anyway …he lives on a housing estate. Farm worker at most
Not true at all, I speak as someone with farmers in the family and have lived on farms and worked on them. Farmers are not some lump of people all the same. They are a varied as everyone one else. Most don’t hunt, some do. A most unjust statement.
😈 horrible thing. Call yourself a man.No man would treat an Animal that way..Family pet why was it even tied in the boot off the car??? Leaving difficulties my Ass..hearing loss years of begin a DJ back in the day
i live locally and hope we do not bump each other. You are a disgusting excuse for a human and what you id to that dog makes me feel physically sick
I don’t live locally but have just read this unintentionally on police post. I try my best to avoid seeing anything like this and I’m traumatised and sickened. Im making a special trip out today. Hope he’s home
Do you know what happened in sentencing? I’ve looked but can’t find anything.
He will be got
Rather than have to spend public funds keeping him in jail, let’s instead strip the fucker naked, lash him to the back of his Nissan Micra, and drag him along a nice gravelled rutted farm track for 500m. Then let’s hide his bleeding body in a cow barn while we all have a cup of tea. Once he’s bled to death having been eaten alive by rats and maggots, we’ll set fire to his wretched corpse and his damn car. And we’ll smirk while doing it. Anything else is too good for this unbelievably cruel piece of shit. I’ve also been on this earth for 65 years and thought I’d seen everything. Sadly it appears not. His family need a good thrashing too while we’re at it.
Recognise your anger but to act in that way !!
He deserves everything she said. I saw this news on police FB totally without warning and it’s totally triggered me. I’ve worked with/owned animals all my life until I got to a point I couldn’t cope with how too many humans treat animals and the toll it’s taken on my mental health with flashbacks etc is significant. Seeing this unsolicited image with no warning have made me physically sick and I’m now planning how I can get to this man to meet out some retribution. The human race needs a reality check. As a race we respect nothing and no one.
Eye for an eye , check it out, its in the Bible
Couldn’t agree more
Totally agree!! Make it 200 miles! Bastard!!
Michael Asher
I think Mary Ryan is NOT wrong she is outraged hence what
she has said.
I think KIM Rendall should get 10 years in Prison & at least
1 year of that in solitary confinement & if the other prisoners
KILL Kim Rendall they will be helping get rid of a MONSTER
Bloody spellcheck…..before anyone comments, I know it’s “mete”
That’s utter rubbish. He’s not even a farmer he lives on a housing estate. I’ve literally just seen this report unintentionally and am sick and traumatised by it. I’m just off to his address with my baseball bat
Is he deaf but not possible he has learning difficulties can’t be drive a car