Published in Otago Daily Times on 31 August 2024 https://www.odt.co.nz/rural-life/dairy/canterbury-farmer-gets-community-work-after-starving-cattle A Canterbury farmer has been sentenced to 240 hours of community work after starving his cattle, resulting in at least 20 dying. Stuart Wellesley Parkinson, 45, was sentenced on Thursday in the Christchurch District Court on three charges under the Animal Welfare Act. As well […]
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Published in Sunlive on 14 August 2024 https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/349045-mangakino-farmer-jailed-for-animal-cruelty.html Warning: Disturbing content An “unrepentant” Mangakino farmer has been jailed and banned from farming animals after being found with hundreds of starving cattle and sheep, some near death, injured or deformed. Warren Koberstein is 75 and has been a farmer for 40 years. But Rotorua District Court Judge Tony Snell
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Russell Murray Berghuis Published on scoop.co.nz on 26/07/2021 https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2107/S00461/lifestyle-block-owner-fined-6709-for-starving-cattle.htm Press Release: Ministry For Primary Industries A lifestyle block owner has been fined $6,000 and ordered to pay $700 in veterinarian costs for starving five cattle, and for failing to adequately treat and prevent parasites in two calves. Russell Murray Berghuis, 65, was found guilty of five
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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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Alastair Robert Kane Hughes Published on stuff.co.nz 18/02/2021 https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/rural/2021/02/waikato-farmer-fined-3500-for-starving-cattle.html A Waikato farmer has been fined $3500 after giving his cattle only half the feed they needed each day. Alastair Robert Kane Hughes appeared in Morrinsville District Court this week to be sentenced on two animal welfare charges brought by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).
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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
Lisa Corfield Published on stuff.co.nz 6/11/2019 https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/racing/117206318/race-horse-owner-and-trainer-lisa-corfield-convicted-after-neglecting-starving-horsess A former jockey has been disqualified from owning horses for 10 years after neglecting some so much they had to be euthanised or died in SPCA care. Lisa Corfield, 47, who first came to the attention of SPCA inspectors more than six years ago, failed to appropriately look after, nourish
Published on stuff.co.nz 12/04/2018 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12030425 A Northland man has been banned from owning dogs for five years after being convicted of animal cruelty for starving his three pet dogs. Te Wira Panapa was sentenced in the Whangarei District Court for starving his three pet dogs. Panapa was convicted of ill-treatment of an animal and