Dog fight pair given suspended prison sentences - WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO OF EVIDENCE
TWO men who caused a fight between two dogs and a snared fox have been given suspended prison sentences.
Gamekeeper Chris Carter, 49, and his work experience apprentice Luke Byrne, 19, who filmed the fight and two others on his mobile phone, were not banned from keeping dogs.
Carter, of Westacre Estate, Gayton Thorpe, was sentenced to three months in prison, reduced to eight weeks for his early guilty plea, suspended for 12 months, 150 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay £1,000 costs, at West Norfolk Magistrates’ Court, Lynn, today (Wednesday).
He had previously admitted one count of causing an animal fight, at Gayton Thorpe, in July 2009.
Byrne, of Mill Houses, Lynn, was sentenced to four months in prison suspended for 12 months, 150 hours unpaid work and £500 costs.
He had previously admitted causing fights between a rat and a terrier in June 2009, two dogs and a fox in July 2009 and a dog and a fox in June 2010. He had also admitted possession of three dead wild birds - a heron in November 2010, a cormorant in February last year and a buzzard in May last year.
The offences came to light after Byrne sold a mobile phone over the internet containing footage of some of the fights and the woman who bought it contacted the RSPCA.
See Friday’s Lynn News for the full report.
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