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Life
Ban for Causing Unnecessary Suffering |
Today, Monday 11th
February at Stockport Magistrates Court Deena Khan, of
Stockport, Cheshire, was given, in her absence, a lifetime ban on keeping
all
equines, a £100 fine and ordered to pay £300 costs.
Following a complaint in April last year from a member of the public,
the ILPH
(International League for the Protection of Horses) visited the livery
yard where Khan
kept an 11.2 hh 13 year old roan mare called Rhona.
Comments Paul Teasdale the investigating ILPH Field Officer, "The
little mare was in
a pitiful state, her skin was stretched over a prominent spine and pelvic
bones and
she was covered in lice. Khan has got what she deserved, it's just a shame
that this
poor little pony had to suffer twice before justice finally prevailed."
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The
mare was taken to the ILPH Recovery and Rehabilitation Centre, Penny
Farm, nr
Blackpool to be nursed back to health. She was later removed to
a more suitable
location because, due to her lack of handling her nervous disposition
manifested itself
in aggressiveness, which proved to be too dangerous for her to say
at the Centre.
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