Police track down horse trader
Police track down horse trader Police arrested horse trader James Gray in Kidderminster today after he absconded from court on Wednesday 12 May 2010. He is due to appear in court at 10am at Aylesbury Crown Court tomorrow (Thursday 27 May). Gray absconded from court as both he and his family were hearing their appeal against sentence.
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After breaking to consider the sentences, the court reconvened in the afternoon. It was then that staff realised James Gray was missing, leaving his family to hear their own verdicts.
Gray was sentenced in his absence to six-months in prison for cruelty to more than 100 horses, ponies and donkeys.
The family was prosecuted after RSPCA inspectors discovered the animals at Spindle Farm in Amersham between Friday 4 and Wednesday 9 January 2008.
Many of the animals had little food or dry bedding and were crammed into pens, ankle deep in faeces.
Other horses had simply been left to die where they fell and then, surrounded by their companions, decomposed.
Further carcasses were found in surrounding fields, some burned on bonfires, and there was a pile of bones and a skull against an outbuilding.
Read all information relating to this case HERE
Added on: 26/05/10.
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