Animal ban for pony couple (From Dudley News)

Animal ban for pony couple

8:20am Wednesday 19th September 2012 in Local

A Brierley Hill couple have been banned from keeping animals for tenyears for causing unnecessary suffering to a young pony, which they kept in their garden shed.

Appearing in Dudley Magistrates Court on September 5, Lisa Marie Badger, aged 31 and Wayne Stuart Badger, aged 28, both of Fens Crescent, were both also handed a 12- month community order and ordered to pay £550.25 each to the RSPCA for failing to address the suffering dark bay cob’s poor condition between January 11 and February 22 this year.

The pony, called Diddy, was discovered to be thin and infested with lice.

The couple, who purchased the pony for their two children, were also both handed a 12-month community order for failing to provide adequate grazing facilities for him between June 1 2011 and February 22 2012.

The two-year-old pony was found by RSPCA inspectors on February 20 in the litter-strewn garden at the couple’s former home in Nelson Road, Dudley, where it was locked in the shed which had no windows and was being fed potato peelings.

After the couple were issued with an immediate notice to relocate the pony to a suitable field with a shelter, the inspector returned two days later to find the pony in the same condition.

The cob was seized and has since been rehomed with an experienced horse owner.

 

 In court on September 3:

 

• Luke Loxolo, aged 23, of Roach Close, Brierley Hill, was fined £110 and ordered to pay £15 costs, as well as being disqualified from driving for six months, for driving without insurance.

The defendant was also handed a 12-month community order and ordered to pay £85 court costs, for producing cannabis.

 

• Aslam Sharif, aged 32, of Weavers Rise, Netherton , was fined £600 and ordered to pay £15 costs and £85 court costs, as well as being handed six licence penalty points, for failing to provide the identity of a driver.

 

• Frederick John Slater, aged 37, of Perkins Close, Dudley, was fined £36 and ordered to pay £15 costs and £80 costs, as well as being handed three licence penalty points, for speeding.

 

• Michael Karl Cameron, aged 23, of The Shrubbery, Eve Hill, was fined £110 and ordered to pay £15 costs and £80 costs, as well as being handed six licence penalty points, for driving without insurance.

 

• Hardeep Singh Gill, aged 27, of Spring Parklands, Dudley, was fined £265 and ordered to pay £15 costs and £80 costs, as well as being handed six licence penalty points, for speeding.

 

• Paul Stanley Mould, aged 41, of Thornfield Croft, Sedgley , was fined £60 and ordered to pay £15 costs as well as being handed three licence penalty points, for speeding.

 

• Kemar Kirk-Patrick Robinson, aged 27, of Crompton Court, Netherton, was fined £100 and ordered to pay £15 costs and £80 costs, for driving a vehicle he was not licensed to drive.

The defendant was also fined £300 and handed six licence penalty points, for driving without insurance.

 

• Luke David Hinton, aged 25, of Tennyson Street, Pensnett, was handed a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £120 compensation and £85 court costs, for stealing three aftershaves, worth £180, from Boots.

 

• Donna Susan Johnson, aged 34, of Brook Street, Gornal Wood, was handed a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £561.22 compensation and £50 court costs, for destroying glass at the front of Spar.

 

• William Oakley, aged 71, of Blowers Green Road, Dudley, was fined £200 for driving a vehicle he was not licensed to drive.

The defendant was also fined £600 and ordered to pay £15 costs and £85 court costs, as well as being handed six licence penalty points, for driving without insurance.

 

Also in court on September 4:

 

• Sukvinder Singh Timana, aged 45, of New Birmingham Road, Dudley, was sent to prison for two weeks for stealing a cassette player.

 

• Antonia Burbridge, aged 27, of Wrens Nest Road, Dudley, was fined £135 and ordered to pay £15 costs and £80 costs, as well as being handed three licence penalty points, for driving while using a mobile phone.

 

• Mark Anthony Heath, aged 50, of Cambridge Road, Holly Hall, was fined £260 and ordered to pay £15 costs and £80 costs, as well as being handed six licence penalty points, for driving without insurance.

 

• Navratnam Selvakanthan, aged 31, of Brownswall Road, Dudley, was fined £65 and ordered to pay £15 costs and £80 costs, as well as being handed three licence penalty points, for driving a vehicle he was not licensed to drive.

 

• Lucy Gammage, aged 19, of Wolverhampton Street, Dudley, was handed a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £117 compensation and £40 court costs, for stealing £117 worth of clothing from Monsoon.

 

• James Mark Murray, aged 24, of High Street, Pensnett, was fined £110 and ordered to pay £15 costs and £400 court costs, for resisting a police officer.

 

In court on September 7:

 

• Lee James Fisher, aged 32, of Chiltern Close, Dudley, was jailed for eight weeks and handed a two year anti-social behaviour order, for stealing £35 worth of meat from Tesco on August 17.

The defendant was also jailed for eight weeks concurrent, for stealing £38 worth of meat from Tesco on August 28.

He was also jailed for eight weeks concurrent, for stealing £45 worth of meat from Tesco on August 31.

The defendant was also jailed for eight weeks concurrent, for stealing £40 worth of meat from Tesco on September 3.

He was also jailed for eight weeks concurrent, for stealing £50 worth of meat from Tesco on September 4.

 

• Gareth Paul White, aged 33, of Stourbridge Road, Dudley, was fined £60 and ordered to pay £15 costs and £85 court costs, for failing to attend an initial drug assessment.

 

• Neil Robert Swift, aged 44, of Grange Road, Dudley, was handed a nine-month community order and £85 court costs, for driving while disqualified.

The defendant was also handed six licence penalty points for driving without insurance.