Dead horse upset for rail passenger
A DISTRESSED rail passenger has spoken of her anger after seeing a dead horse left to rot in a field beside the train tracks.
Anne Thompson and her husband Des regularly travel from Lynn to Cambridge and first noticed the animal at the beginning of the month.
They called the RSPCA, but days later the female horse had not been moved and lay decaying for all to see.
Mrs Thompson, of St John's Road, Tilney St Lawrence, first noticed the horse lying with its head down from the train window about two miles from Downham on Tuesday, December 2.
Fearing it was injured or dead, she immediately phoned the RSPCA, who assured her something would be done.
Two days later, Mrs Thompson was shocked to see the horse, rapidly decaying, in the same spot and was upset to see it again on December 9.
She told the Lynn News: "I could not believe, having rung the RSPCA within half-an-hour of seeing the horse, it was still there days later. They took all my details but they did not come back to me.
"I would have thought the owners would be looking for it. I am disgusted that no-one has done anything.
"The horse was pretty well decayed and predators will be going for it. I'm not a 'horse person', but I am a humane person."
A spokesman for the RSPCA said an inspector had visited the site and the grey filly involved had been "dead for several weeks."
The owners had been contacted and asked to remove the body, but the RSPCA could not force them to do so.
At last count, there were 37 horses in the field and the inspector would be keeping a regular watch on them, the spokesman added.
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