Updated: 23/07/2021, 5:49 pm
Gail Vines leaving court.
A woman has been banned from keeping horses for five years after SSPCA inspectors discovered a pony “severely underweight” and suffering from lice and redworms.
Gail Vines had been juggling a divorce, childcare and work, so had only been checking on her field of nine horses on the way home, shining a torch to check they were all there.
The 64-year-old failed to notice pony Eve had become unwell and underweight due to redworms causing digestive issues and diarrhoea.
Eve was found severely underweight
The animal was also suffering from skin lesions and lice when SSPCA inspectors found her and took her away to be treated.
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