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| Horse trader Tom Price jailed for cruelty and Asbo breach | |
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| A horse trader has been jailed for eight months and banned from keeping horses for five years after being found guilty of 57 animal welfare and cruelty charges. | |
| Tom Price, 48, from Wick in the Vale of Glamorgan, caused unnecessary suffering to 18 horses by magistrates in Cardiff and received a six month sentence. | |
| It will run concurrently with an eight month sentence he received for a breach of an anti-social behaviour order. | |
| The RSPCA believe he has 2,500 horses. | |
| The horses were found at five locations in south Wales and the court heard 12 animals had been "left to die" in a Bridgend barn. | |
| Price's 26-year-old son, Thomas Hope Price, was also found guilty in June. | |
| 'Shocking and horrendous' | |
| On Friday, district judge at Cardiff Magistrates' Court Bodfan Jenkins ordered the pair to pay £43,000 each in court costs. | |
| It comes after the RSPCA found evidence of neglect and unnecessary suffering to horses in five locations across Bridgend and the Vale of Glamorgan. | |
| Mr Jenkins said both men had both been involved in a large and wealthy concern breeding gypsy cobs and the conditions they were kept in were shocking and horrendous" and almost beggared belief. | |
| Thomas Hope Price received a shorter sentence of 23 weeks because he had pleaded guilty to the offences before the trial. | |
| The five year disqualification for keeping horses was suspended for six months to give the Prices and their company, Glamorgan Horse Traders, time to sell or dispose of their stock. | |
| Harassment | |
| Speaking after the case, the RSPCA said it did not have the facilities to re-home the huge numbers of horses involved and was looking for a partnership between local authorities and the Welsh government to address the problem. | |
| Price was sentenced separately for the breach of the Asbo between the 6 and 22 December, 2012 by District Judge John Charles. | |
| He was fined £1,000 in costs and the judge told him: "There was a harassment of landowners targeted by you. You've not shown a shred of respect for anybody and not shown any remorse. | |
| "Landowners were powerless to deal with your fly grazing activities and they were virtually intimidated by you." | |
| Acting Supt Marc Lamerton from South Wales Police said he hoped the sentence would bring an end to the illegal practice of fly grazing and Asbo breaches are taken seriously. |