Published on stuff.co.nz 11 July 2023 https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/canterbury/132519222/professional-rider-beat-horse-for-two-minutes-after-it-didnt-do-what-she-wanted-during-ap-show Professional rider beat horse for two minutes after it didn’t do what she wanted during A&P show A professional rider whose abuse of her horse at an A&P show disgusted observers has failed to get either a discharge without conviction or have her name suppressed. As reported in The Press, […]
Published on 1news.co.nz on 18 November 2021 https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/11/18/auckland-woman-gets-community-detention-for-severe-neglect-of-horses/ Kiri Matenga An Auckland woman has been prosecuted by SPCA for neglecting two horses so severely that one of them had to be euthanised to prevent it from suffering further. Kiri Matenga was sentenced at Manukau District Court on Thursday after pleading guilty to two counts of
Published on www.districtscourt.govt.nz 12/07/2019 As this is copied directly from the court document, I apologise if it is hard to read. HELEN MARGARET PEART EDITORIAL NOTE: CHANGES MADE TO THIS JUDGMENT APPEAR IN [SQUARE BRACKETS].WHANGAREI SPCA v HELEN MARGARET PEART [2018] NZDC 14948 [20 July 2018] IN THE DISTRICT COURTAT WHANGAREICRI-2017-088-001940[2018] NZDC 14948 WHANGAREI SPCAProsecutorvHELEN
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Alicia Victoria Keppel Published on www.newshub.co.nz on 31/05/2021 https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/rural/2021/05/hamilton-farmer-disqualified-from-owning-horses-after-letting-animal-starve-to-death.html A Hamilton woman has been disqualified from owning horses for a year after she let a horse of hers starve to death. Alicia Victoria Keppel, 53, was also sentenced to 100 hours’ community work for the incident and ordered to pay vet fees of $498 in
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Tania Harrison Published on rnz.co.nz 11/02/2021 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/436198/woman-banned-from-ownership-after-horse-left-starving-for-4-weeks 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
Lindsay Fraser Published on NZ Herald 3/9/2020 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12361849 A Masterton woman has been banned from owning stock for a decade after horses were left with untreated maggot-infested wounds and other parasite-infested animals were so thin they were barely more than skin and bones. In one of the worst cases of animal cruelty and neglect ever
Peter Michael Walters Published on stuff.co.nz on 16 August 2018 https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/106320205/man-guilty-of-illtreating-cashew-the-pony-for-the-second-time A former pony club president has been found guilty of ill-treating his pony for the second time, in exactly the same way as the first. Judge Lance Rowe found Peter Michael Walters guilty of the charge in the Palmerston North District Court on
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Published on tvnz.co.nz on 15/08/2018 https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/man-sentenced-after-horse-discovered-barely-able-stand-unable-eat-due-ulcerated-gums?variant=tb_v_1 Christopher Tuaupiki A man was sentenced yesterday to three months of community detention after his horse had to be euthanised because debilitating oral problems meant it was unable to eat. Christopher Tuaupiki was found guilty at the Te Kuiti District Court on March 20 of one charge of reckless
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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
Published on Stuff 24/01/2018 https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/nor-west-news/100848025/Auckland-woman-charged-for-unacceptable-neglect-of-horse Warning: This article contains content which some readers may find distressing. An Auckland woman has been disqualified from owning horses for five years after failing to seek treatment for her ailing horse, leading to its death. Emma Boase pleaded guilty to three charges against the Animal Welfare Act (1999) including reckless
Published on courtnews.co.nz 16/07/2014 https://www.animalabuser.co.nz/wp-admin/post-new.php Brothers who admitted ill-treatment of their horses have been slapped with 16-month jail terms and a five-year ban on owning horses by Christchurch District Court Judge Jane Farish. The brothers were jailed for the neglect of the animals they had at a 6ha property in Quaifes Road, Halswell, in 2010.
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