CONVICTED (2021) | Helen Jane Medland, born 20 January 1982, of Queen Elizabeth Road, Launceston PL15 8EZ but originally from Bude in Cornwall – failed to give adequate food and water to her three horses or provide them with veterinary care
Stables owner Helen Medland admitted causing unnecessary suffering to three horses. These included a Shetland pony named Sony who’d been left to suffer for several months with chronic laminitis – an extremely painful hoof condition. Medland had ignored advice from a horse welfare officer to trim the pony’s hooves to avoid a recurrence of the condition.
RSPCA inspector Claire Ryder described Sony’s condition as “awful” with hooves so overgrown he could barely walk.
She added: “The veterinary surgeon who examined Sony concluded that he had undergone unnecessary suffering for several months because of the chronic laminitis and hoof overgrowth which has not been appropriately diagnosed and treated.”
Medland was responsible for a catalogue of neglect towards the horses.
The field where she kept them was said to be “very wet, muddy and waterlogged”.
None of the animals were given sufficient hay or water. Any hay that had been supplied was out of their reach but was mouldy in any case due to being left exposed to the elements.
In addition, Medland failed to provide any of them with proper hoof, dental, or medical care or to mitigate their exposure to lice.
Sentencing: 18-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months; ordered to pay a total of £628. She was given a lifetime ban but can appeal after 15 years.
Karma baby, karma!
Should of seen how she treated her dog poor thing