Harness racing identity in court over border issue
A well-known New Zealand harness racing driver has been sentenced to community service for failing to declare unclean racing equipment on his arrival dorsum inwards the country.
Anthony Murray Butt was sentenced to 120 hours of community service when he appeared inwards the Christchurch District Court on a accuse of knowingly making a faux annunciation to Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) quarantine inspectors inwards August concluding year.
Butt, an experienced harness racer, did non declare unclean harness racing driving equipment when he arrived at Christchurch International Airport from Sydney.
When questioned past times a quarantine inspector, Butt said he had non been riding horses when inwards Australia.
When asked most his muddied clothing, Butt said that it had come upwards from New Zealand.
Subsequent investigations, including analysis of video footage, clearly showed that this was non the illustration as well as Butt had been racing inwards the wearable as well as equipment inwards question.
The ministry’s compliance director for Canterbury as well as Westland, Peter Hyde, said: “Equine biosecurity is taken real seriously past times MPI, every bit horse-racing contributes a pregnant amount to the New Zealand economy.
“Concerns roughly the deadly Hendra virus hateful that those travelling from Commonwealth of Australia demand to accept exceptional attention that they stimulate got decontaminated whatever equipment that may set a biosecurity risk.
“The offending is made all the to a greater extent than serious inwards this illustration every bit Mr Butt knowingly made a faux annunciation afterwards beingness potentially exposed to an extremely serious biosecurity risk.
“As a professional person involved inwards the Equus caballus racing manufacture he is good aware of the risks posed to the manufacture past times Hendra as well as other biosecurity threats.”
The maximum penalisation for knowingly making a faux annunciation is 12 months imprisonment and/or a fine of $50,000.
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