Dealer must pay £10,000 over horse passport offences
A Equus caballus dealer inwards U.K. must pay £10,000 inwards fines together with costs for licence together with passport offences over trying to export low-value ponies from Essex to the continent.
James Harbour was establish guilty yesteryear Colchester Magistrates Court terminal calendar month of xviii offences including exporting horses together with ponies without wellness certificates, forging export licences together with travelling horses without passports.
Essex Trading Standards prosecuted the case, which was investigated yesteryear the Animal Health together with Veterinary Laboratories Agency’s (AHVLA) portal squad based at Dover, afterward a tip off from a World Horse Welfare plain officeholder who had obtained information that the Equus caballus dealer had been exporting vulnerable ponies through the port of Harwich inwards Essex.
World Horse Welfare deputy principal executive Tony Tyler said: “We are really concerned nearly the welfare of horses together with ponies that are transported out of the province without the necessary checks together with paperwork, every bit oft that agency the dealers responsible cutting corners on welfare, too.
“I promise this representative sends a clear message to those who create non follow the rules that they tin give the axe live on establish out.”
A spokesperson for the Animal Health together with Veterinary Laboratories Agency said the information from World Horse Welfare alerted staff to Harbour’s increased export activity together with to concerns that he was attempting to flout rules to both protect the welfare of animals together with forestall the spread of brute diseases.
The agency’s staff worked closely amongst Essex Trading Standards together with the Port of Harwich inwards the investigation, together with were able to position Harbour’s move patterns, assess the flat of non-compliance together with to possess upward one's heed on the appropriate activeness to take.
As inquiries continued, a blueprint of offending emerged.
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