#MostEvil | Connie Mullane, born 16/08/1993, of Northwood Park Travellers Site, Old Gloucester Road, Winterbourne, Bristol BS36 1RZ – caught on CCTV battering a helpless pony with a plank of wood
Gypsy traveller Connie Mullane, who was previously given an ASBO alongside brother Edward Mullane for fly-grazing offences, admitted carrying out a vicious attack on a pony.
A CCTV camera captured the moment Mullane repeatedly smashed a piece of wood into the face, head and body of a pony.
Injured and terrified, the pony rears up in fright, but was attached to a racing trap and couldn’t escape as Mullane returned to rain blows down on her.
“This is an absolutely horrific case of animal cruelty,” said RSPCA Inspector Miranda Albinson.
“There is never an excuse to treat an animal in this way.
“CCTV footage clearly shows Connie Mullane hitting the poor horse in the face with a piece of wood in an incident which would have caused pain and left the horse terrified,” she added.
Mullane admitted a charge of causing unnecessary suffering to a pony on May 20, 2017, by inflicting blunt force trauma and physical violence, contrary to Section 4 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006.
Sentencing: 24 weeks in prison, suspended for two years. Ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and to pay a total of £615 costs and charges. Disqualified from keeping equine animals for life.