'He had been worked until he dropped.'
Police have released CCTV of a person they want to speak to in connection with the horse’s death The RSPCA is investigating after a horse was worked to death at Appleby Horse Fair. The three-year-old stallion collapsed at Jubilee Bridge on Wednesday afternoon in what’ the RSPCA’s been described as an ‘inexcusable act of cruelty’.
The arrests, near the Midland Hotel, happened after police were called to help the RSPCA who had ‘difficulty’ being allowed access to horses by ‘obstructive owners’. Gypsy representatives Billy Welch and Bill Lloyd said: ‘We condemn in the strongest possible terms whoever has done this. ‘We are sickened and saddened by the cruelty that this person or persons have shown.
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