Horse & Hound Trending: A man with a “track record” of animal mistreatment, who kept 240 horses in “appalling conditions”, has been sent to prison and banned from keeping animals for life. Tom Price, who has previously been prosecuted for welfare offences, and banned for five years, was found guilty on 32 charges, at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates’ Court last week. District judge Neil Thomas told 56-year-old “horse trader and breeder” Price, of Redway Road, Bonvilston, that the evidence against him was compelling. The court heard Price kept animals in “atrocious” conditions, at three sites in the Vale of Glamorgan and Bridgend. In August 2019, animal welfare officers found a flock of Jacob sheep with fleeces still unshorn during a visit to Swn-y-Mor, Wick.