11th March 2025
Two men have been jailed for 10 weeks each for offences relating to cock-fighting and animal cruelty. Douglas Price, 34, of Poplar Meadow, Beckingham, pleaded guilty to two counts of keeping and/or training cockerels for use in connection with an animal fight at the Poplar Meadow Traveller Site in May 2024.
He also pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to eight cockerels by failing to provide adequate nutrition for them and failing to address their weight loss at the Poplar Meadow site. A further charge of possessing cock-fighting spurs designed or adapted for use in an animal fight was dismissed.
Hugh Steele, 53, also of Poplar Meadow, pleaded guilty being present at an animal fight in January 2024 at the same traveller site, as well as causing unnecessary suffering to a red and black cockerel by failing to treat wounds on its head and neck. Both men pleaded guilty to the charges at Lincoln Magistrates Court on Friday February 7, and were remanded until they were sentenced on Tuesday (March 11), where they were each handed a 10 week prison sentence.
https://www.newarkadvertiser.co.uk/news/men-jailed-for-cock-fighting-offences-9407974/
Hope they ROT IN JAIL!
ABOUT TIME SCUM LIKE THIS WERE JAILED BUT 10 WEEKS IS NOT LONG ENOUGH FOR WHAT THEY DO SHOULD HAVE BEEN 10 MONTHS AT LEAST AND THIS SHOULD APPLY TO ALL ANIMAL CRUELTY INCLUDING THE ILLEGAL FOX HUNTERS.????????