The victim of a terrifying Lower Hutt hit and run is relieved to hear a guilty plea 18 February 2021
Anna Chesterfield was hit on a pedestrian crossing last month by a driver who was texting on his phone.
Driver, Jade Harris, panicked and sped off, leaving her seriously injured on the road.
He has pleaded guilty in Lower Hutt District Court this morning, and will be sentenced in May.
Chesterfield says his actions have changed her life forever.
She says everything s become harder, and now she s learning to walk again, which is really difficult.
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A horse named Zorro starved for up to four weeks after its owner tied it to a tree without access to food or water.
GRAPHIC WARNING: A starving horse had to be euthanised after its owner left it tied to a tree without access to food or water for up to a month. Tania Harrison, of Lower Hutt, was banned from owning horses for 10 years after her horse Zorro was found on March 23, 2020, emaciated, struggling to stand and with a large wound to his right hind leg. When an SPCA inspector visited Harrison s property after receiving a tipoff about Zorro s condition they located Zorro tethered to a pine tree about 20m down a steep bank down a winding gravel driveway. The tether was just 1.5m long as it was tangled around multiple trees.
The SPCA is condemning a Wellington woman who tied her horse to a tree and starved him for up to four weeks.
Tania Harrison has been sentenced in the Hutt Valley District Court, charged with reckless ill-treatment of an animal.
She has been ordered to pay $287 in reparations and $450 in legal costs. She has also been banned from owning horses for 10 years.
On 23 March last year, an SPCA inspector visited her property and found a horse named Zorro tethered down a bank, emaciated, and struggling to stand with a wound in his hind leg.
According to the SPCA, Harrison admitted in court that she had tied up her horse up to four weeks earlier as he kept escaping.