Ronald Ward REPEAT OFFENDER Published in stuff.co.nz 18/03/2021 https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300255386/repeat-animal-neglecter-ronald-ward-sentenced-for-illtreatment-of-dogs A man allowed to have pets despite having a record of animal neglect is now banned from owning any creatures for a decade. Ronald Ward was sentenced in the Palmerston North District Court to five months’ community detention and six months’ supervision for neglecting the animals, […]
James Kereopa Published on scoop.co.nz 22/06/2020 https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2006/S00499/spca-prosecutes-man-for-breaching-an-order-disqualifying-him-from-owning-dogs.htm SPCA Prosecutes Man For Breaching An Order Disqualifying Him From Owning Dogs Monday, 22 June 2020, 4:20 pmPress Release: SPCA SPCA has charged a Christchurch man who was found in possession of a dog after being disqualified from owning them after a previous ruling. James Kereopa pled not guilty
Published on www.newshub.co.nz on 27/03/2019 https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/03/whakatane-man-sentenced-for-beating-puppy.html Dimitrie Apanui pleaded guilty on Wednesday in Whakatāne District Court to the ill-treatment of puppy King in 2018. He was sentenced to 240 hours community service and disqualified from owning animals for three years. CCTV footage showed Apanui beating the puppy with a “small object” at least six times,
Logan Bragg Published on newshub.co.nz on 24/09/2018 https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/09/tauranga-man-sentenced-for-shooting-neighbour-s-dog-in-the-rear.html The dog had several small wounds consistent with bullet holes. Photo credit: SPCA A Tauranga man has been sentenced for shooting his neighbour’s elderly dog in the rear end with a shotgun. Logan Bragg appeared in the Tauranga District Court on Friday and was ordered to
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Published on One News https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/spca-seizes-45-dogs-from-serial-animal-hoarders-property-in-northland-raid Last week Ann Power was ordered to hand over her animals to the SPCA by the Auckland District Court. Power has a long history of animal abuse and neglect. She has five convictions related to animal welfare and nine criminal and driving convictions. Power wasn’t home today when the SPCA
Pamela De Vere Published on the NZ Herald website on 22 November 2016 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11752655 An Auckland woman who starved her two dogs and left them living in their own waste was sentenced today. The samoyed and a siberian husky, were found by an SPCA Auckland inspector in September last year in Pamela De Vere’s garage
Published in the Gisborne Herald January 12 2016 http://gisborneherald.co.nz/localnews/2111043-135/court-sends-clear-message-on-treatment THE SPCA is pleased with its prosecution of two Gisborne men who ill-treated wild goats, then shared footage on social media. The men were sentenced in Gisborne yesterday and SPCA chief executive officer Ric Odom says it was the court’s conviction of the men rather
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Published in the Gisborne Herald http://gisborneherald.co.nz/localnews/2111043-135/court-sends-clear-message-on-treatment THE SPCA is pleased with its prosecution of two Gisborne men who ill-treated wild goats, then shared footage on social media. The men were sentenced in Gisborne yesterday and SPCA chief executive officer Ric Odom says it was the court’s conviction of the men rather than the scale
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Published in the Otago Daily Times 23 June 2009 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10580313 The longest sentence for animal cruelty in New Zealand was imposed on a Dunedin man yesterday. Jeffrey Hurring, 19, a supermarket shelf-filler, was sentenced in the Dunedin District Court to 12 months’ jail for killing an 18-month-old male Jack Russell dog in Dunedin on