Woman banned from keeping animals after starving and sick horses found at farm
A woman from Albrighton has been banned from keeping nearly all animals after letting horses suffer with starvation, chronic foot abscesses, poor dental care and rain scald.
Vanessa Roll pleaded guilty to 12 Animal Welfare Act offences and was sentenced at Birmingham Magistrates' Court.
The 49-year-old had kept six horses at a farm in Staffordshire, three of which died as a result of her care.
RSPCA inspector Natalie Perehovsky found the horses at Yew Tree Farm on Wharf Road in Adbaston, Staffordshire, with a series of welfare concerns – with one bay colt, Michael, found collapsed and largely unresponsive in a field on arrival, with his ribs visible through his skin.
Four horses suffered as a consequence of Roll's lack of appropriate care – the bay colt named Michael, a black mare known as Lizzie, a black mare called Phil and bay mare Stardance.
