Jail for suffocation of 25 ponies in back of truck

An Australian human responsible for the deaths of 25 ponies inward an inadequately ventilated truck inward New South Wales volition pass at to the lowest degree 6 months inward jail.

Pottsville human Shane Jason Dean admitted 25 counts of aggravated brute cruelty charges when he appeared inward Glen Innes Local Court inward mid-February. Yesterday, Magistrate Mark Richardson sentenced Dean to ii years inward jail, amongst a non-parole menses of 6 months.

The bodies of the ponies were constitute dumped off a roadside close Glen Innes, inward northern New South Wales, inward mid-December.

Dean, 39, had hired a nine-tonne truck to deed the ponies virtually 440 kilometres from Kingstown District, inward the New England area, to Pottsville.

After virtually 100 kilometres he stopped to cheque the animals together with constitute them either dead or dying from a lack of ventilation.

He pulled the 25 corpses from the truck, dumping them off the New England Highway at a truck halt close Glen Innes, virtually 3 kilometres due south of Old Ben Lomond Road.

The bodies of closed to of the ponies were constitute over a nearby cliff.

Police were initially told virtually the dead ponies early on inward the afternoon of Dec 16, together with constitute the remains afterward a cheque of the area.

There were no brands, tags or whatever other course of didactics of identifying marks that could hold upward seen to help the officers inward locating an owner, law said at the time.

Police photographed the animals, which were thus buried at the location.

Following inquiries past times New England detectives, law arrested Dean afterward interviewing him at his abode on Dec 22.

 

 

 

 

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