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Rotherham, South Yorkshire: Dawn Rose

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CONVICTED (2009) | Dawn Elizabeth Rose, born 25/01/1960, previously of Llangolen, North Wales, and more recently Duncan Street, Brinsworth, Rotherham S60 5DE – allowed 72 horses on her failing stud farm to starve

RSPCA inspectors found desperately emaciated animals foraging for scraps of food on Dawn Rose's stud farm.
RSPCA inspectors found desperately emaciated animals on Dawn Rose’s stud farm.

Divorcee Dawn Rose set up a stud farm using a £300,000 pay-out from her ex-partner to fulfil her teenage daughter’s dream of breeding ponies.

But the business was a failure, and when inspectors raided it they found desperately emaciated animals foraging for scraps of food.

Rose pleaded guilty to six charges of causing unnecessary suffering to animals.

The mother-of-two wept as RSPCA prosecutor Glen Murphy said the experienced inspection team had been “stunned” by the appalling condition of the animals on her stud farm.

RSPCA inspector Chris Dunbar first visited Rose in March 2008 when she bought her 42-acre farm to start a stud.

Inspector Dunbar said: “We had concerns from the start as she wasn’t feeding the horses. We kept going back — she listened but did nothing.”

RSPCA inspectors found desperately emaciated animals foraging for scraps of food on Dawn Rose's stud farm.

One horse, a chestnut mare called Mist, was little more than a ‘skeleton with skin stretched over’, and the vet who treated her was amazed she could still stand up.

Three others were so weak that they died soon afterwards.

Rose, who had moved to the area from Norfolk, told investigators her money had run out and she could not afford to pay for the animals.

Sitting at Mold magistrates court, district judge Andrew Shaw told Ms Rose: “You neglected these horses in an obvious and shameful way.”

Mr Dunbar added: “We were happy with the ban. Our job is to stop cruelty and in this case that’s what we feel we’ve done.”

Sentencing: three-month sentence suspended for 12 months; 100 hours of unpaid community work. Banned from keeping or being involved with horses for 10 years (expired 2019).

As a bankrupt, Rose was only ordered to pay £250 of the RSPCA’s prosecution costs of £128,554.

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Morecambe, Lancashire: Christopher Collyer

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#MostEvil | Christopher Dennis Collyer, born 12/09/1983, with a last-known address of Aldcliffe Court, Morecambe LA4 4TW – strung up an ‘unwanted’ springer spaniel by his lead and left him to slowly choke to death.

Evil dog killer Christopher Collyer from Morecambe, Lancashire, UK

Father of multiple children Collyer was found guilty  of causing unnecessary suffering to Charlie by hanging him from a pipe inside a stone bunker in woods in Keighley, West Yorkshire, leaving him to strangle to death.

Dog killer Christopher Collyer's victim Charlie
Dog killer Christopher Collyer’s victim Charlie

Nigel Monaghan, prosecuting for the RSPCA, told the court the vet who examined Charlie after his death confirmed his death would not have been ‘instantaneous’ and said he was also suffering from a chronic skin condition.

Ian and Mandy Collyer now of West Byland, Halifax. Mandy Collyer allegedly told her son to "get rid" of Charlie.
Ian and Mandy Collyer now of West Byland, Halifax. Mandy Collyer allegedly told her son to “get rid” of Charlie.

The court heard that Collyer had been given the dog by his parents, Mandy and Ian Collyer, who were moving house and could not take Charlie with them.

The dog was found hanging in a concrete bunker in Hainsworth Woods, Keighley, by a member of the public on June 10 2008.

A prosecution witness had previously placed Collyer there on June 7.

Mr Monaghan said: “This was appalling cruelty. It was a deliberate and what appears to have been a premeditated act by the defendant.

“What followed was what can only be described as a tissue of lies.

“In court he maintained his story that he had taken the dog for a walk, met a woman and given it to her.

“It is difficult to think of a worse example of animal cruelty given the degree of suffering he must have been subjected to.”

Evil dog killer Christopher Collyer from Morecambe, Lancashire, UK

Collyer’s parents, Mandy Collyer and Ian Collyer of West Byland, Illingworth, Halifax HX2 9JU admitted causing unnecessary suffering to the animal by failing to provide veterinary care for Charlie’s skin condition.

Dog killer Christopher Collyer's mother Mandy Collyer also had a role to play in Charlie's death
Mandy Collyer

Speaking about the case, the RSPCA inspector who found Charlie said it was the worst case he had seen in 15 years.

Evil dog killer Christopher Collyer from Morecambe, Lancashire, UK
Collyer with partner Jenny Hicks.

Inspector Dave Holgate said: ‘When I came across the dog hanging in the bunker, it was a horrific scene.

‘I’ve never seen anything like that in 15 years and I hope I never see anything like that again.

‘That poor dog must have suffered for a long time before it eventually died because its feet were just touching the ground.”

Sentencing
Christopher Collyer:  24 weeks in prison. Banned for life from keeping animals. 

Mandy Collyer and Ian Collyer: community service. Banned from keeping pets for just three years (expired 2012).

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Barnstaple, Devon: Marianne Stribling

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CONVICTED (2009) | Marianne Stribling aka Marianne Arkless, born 16/01/1981, of John Gay Close, Barnstaple EX32 8DB – locked two dogs in a garden shed to starve to death and failed to feed a rabbit

Marianne Stribling, who left two dogs and a rabbit to starve to death in her garden
Pet killer Marianne Stribling is banned for life from keeping animals but had already breached her ban just one year after her initial sentence

German shepherd Charm and a collie named Prince were left to died in agony over three weeks in Stribling’s back yard. All that remained of Prince was matted fur, teeth and bones. Charm had eaten his remains in desperation before she also starved to death.

The corpses of the two dogs were found in a tiny garden shed. No food or water was available and a fenced-off run in the yard was covered in dog faeces and mud.

An RSPCA inspector was forced to crawl through a kitchen window to get in to the yard, because Stribling had lost the back door key.

A rabbit was also found at the scene. She too had been starved and had to be put to sleep.

Stribling told magistrates she had credit card debts totalling between £20,000 and £30,000 and could not afford to buy food for the dogs – one of which was said to have been an unwanted gift.

She claimed she had been “vilified” and had received death threats.

Animal welfare protestors were out in force at Stribling’s trial and as she was led away to begin a three-month prison sentence a woman in the public gallery called her an “evil bitch”.

Stribling was also banned from keeping animals for life, but in November 2009, following a tip-off, the RSPCA discovered two eight-week old kittens at her home. Police had to be called when the inspector was abused by a neighbour of Stribling but the cats were eventually handed over.

Sentencing: 12 weeks in prison. Banned from keeping animals for life.

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