Please encourage as many people as possible to be there, although we don't want any "rowdiness" - just placards and banners. The name of the farm is "spindles farm", although it has now gone down in history as "Hell Farm", so we call it that on one of our placards. Gray probably thinks we've all given up because only one person turned up last week, so we need to let him know what we think of people who starve horses to death and who encourage their offspring to drag them around by their tails!
Hope to see you.
Spindles Farm Animal Cruelty Case Begins
Horses, donkeys and ponies were found in a 'grotesque and distressing' state and 'left to die' a court heard at the trial of a Hyde Heath family facing animal cruelty charges.
James Gray, 45, his wife Julie Gray, 41, and daughters Cordelia Gray, 20, of Spindles Farm, in Chalk Lane and Jodie Gray, 26, of Park Road, Ashford, Middlesex, each face 12 charges under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 of neglect and failing to meet the welfare needs of 125 equines.
A teenage boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also faces the same charges. The defendants deny all of the charges.
This follows a rescue operation earlier this year at the Hyde Heath farm in which more than 100 of the horses, donkeys and ponies were seized by police.
Their trial, due to last up to 50 days, began on Monday at Bicester Magistrates Court.
The horses were discovered emaciated and living among 31 carcasses by RSPCA officers in what one described as 'the worst case of animal suffering' they had ever seen, the court was told.
They visited the farm with vets and police between January 4 and 9, where a further three horses had to be put down.
Robert Seabrook Q.C., representing the RSPCA, told the court: "You are going to hear about horses and other equines in a somewhat disgusting way in which they were kept."
"Carcasses in varying states of decomposition were found not only in a pen and yard area but in among live horses tethered in fields."
Two RSPCA inspectors visited the site, which was being used for a horse trading business, on January 4 and discovered the animals with little food water and dry bedding, Mr Seabrook said.
"One described the nausea she felt and the horror of what she witnessed and believed it was the worst case of suffering she had ever seen," he said.
Mr Seabrook added: "The dead horses died on their feet from emaciation and lack of attention There was no indication they had been shot or killed humanely - they had been left to die and suffer unnecessarily."
He described an incident where a member of the public reported seeing Mr Gray and the teenage boy remove a horse from a National Trust field near Hughenden Manor, High Wycombe.
He said: "There followed the most distressing and extraordinary and cruel exercise whereby they sought to haul this horse by a rope around its head and tail.
"The horse's head was forced to twist backwards. Witnesses told how it appeared to be dead but at one stage moved its head."
The case continues.
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