This message is from: Karen McCarthy <weeg...@hotmail.com> The following is an exchange I had w/ Fiona Nicholson re. the Scottish Fjords/David Stewart incident.
She provides additional background. Posted here w/ her permission. If anyone is familiar w/ Scottish.British animal laws, and has thoughts on what can be done to prevent this person from further harm to his animals, please feel free to post or contact me off-line. Thanks. Karen in central Oregon From: norsen...@norsenags.karoo.co.uk To: weeg...@hotmail.com Subject: re 7 fjords died in Scotland Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:29:10 +0000 karen my name is Fiona Nicholson and do go on the list but just look Im from Yorkshire in England, a few folks on the list may have met me in Norway and I came to see the Blue Earth show afew years back I hope you dont mind me mailing you about the horses in Scotland after pleading not guilty for over ayear and asking the court for more time David Stewart changed his plea the day before his case to guilty on the count of starving 3 horses to death what the account doesnt tell you is 12 other horses at cranloch were also starving, some days from death the vet said the vets condition scored some horses 0, 0.5 and 1 after the first horse died it was 8 days later that the 2 youngsters died one was actually put down ,near death he just didnt do anything his barn had plenty of hay but it was locked this site is very much off the beaten path so nobody saw them also I think with big wooly coats nobody would realise 4 more horses died after rescue ,they had all used body fat to survive and this causes some liver damage but repairs its self when they get good food sadly 4 showed only a little improvement after blood tests so a biopsy was done they had ragwort poisoning, left to starve they had eaten this terrible weed my own horses were on loan to David but at his home but they fared only alittle better and sadly my youngster died of ragwort poisoning I will never forgive myself for not going that summer I cancelled my trip because where I live got badly flooded every time I called he said everything was fine , then he stopped answering the phone ,email and letters so we went up in the car I hope I never see any think so shocking as what we did that day he has showed not one ounce of remorse and indeed has behaved in a very arrogant way this was nothing to do with money he just didnt go to feed them he betrayed everybody especially the horses I think the court lost the plot after he pleaded guilty to the first counts they didnt want to hear the rest so they fined him just £720 he has quite literally got away with murder all the welfare organisations are furious and are complaining to the courts a terrible miscarriage of justice fjords are so tough Im sure if this was any other breed many more would be dead which to those of use who know fjords its all the more shocking because we can see how bad it must have been as for our society this is in limbo because we cant even disband it, he has refused to hand any paperwork over that he had , and has said he will burn the lot including the stud book sorry to have sent you such a long mail but I wanted you to have the full story the links to UK papers only says 3 horses although I think the Horse and Hound will do a full story this week comming fiona _____________________________________________________________________________ __________ From: Karen McCarthy To: norsen...@norsenags.karoo.co.uk Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 2:42 PM Subject: RE: re 7 fjords died in Scotland Fiona, I am off to work over here, so short on time, but I do appreciate you emailing me, really I do! What an awful, terrible discovery. I think this man must be mad, really certifiably crazy. How horrible. Maybe some outside groups need to come together to amend his sentence, so he never can own or care for livestock ever again? May I please have permission to post this to the Fjord list here? if you wish to remain anonymous, this is OK. Thanks very much. Karen _____________________________________________________________________________ __________ From: norsen...@norsenags.karoo.co.uk To: weeg...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: re 7 fjords died in Scotland Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:19:03 +0000 Karen thanks for reading my mail , yes we thought he was maybe having a nervous break down but no their is nothing wrong with him everybody tried to help him even the welfare people he was so arrogant it wasnt real a lady who rescued 9 and has cared for them amazingly she deserves a medal! she told me it was like he was seeing with different eyes to the rest of us, quite a pair of rose coloured glasses sadly because the court didnt bother to hear all the evidence he can keep the horses he has (12) and is already fighting to get the 9 back they had a movement order on them but since the court let him get away he will have them soon as they are running out of ideas (legal) to stop him he still has a stallion so will just breed more please feel free to put it on the list, I do know some folk on it like catherine its ironic that she her self has just rescued some poor fjords I used to be on the list from the start but for a while I didnt have a computer ( Im a techno idiot)now I just read I love the fjord stories weve all written to everybody we could think of but law stuff takes ages but we feel this was such a miss carriage of justice and a dangerous precedent to set I dont know if you have laws about Ragwort but we have the ingerous weed act and the ragwort act so we do have laws to protect animals and animal welfare organizations work tirelessly to educate owners and protect livestock the court its self ignored the law thanks again, fiona Important FjordHorse List Links: Subscription Management: http://tinyurl.com/5msa7e FH-L Archives: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw Classified Ads: http://tinyurl.com/5b5g2f
