clipped from: www.independent.ie Five members of one family were found guilty of "grotesque" cruelty yesterday after one of Britain's largest horse-rescue operations. RSPCA inspectors who raided Spindle Farm in Buckinghamshire, England, last year found a "horror scene" of starving, emaciated and diseased animals, surrounded by the rotting corpses of others.
In total, 115 horses, ponies and donkeys were rescued and 32 others were found dead in varying states of decay.
Yesterday, trader James Gray (45) and his son James Junior, (16) were found guilty of 11 charges under the Animal Welfare Act 2006. His wife Julie (41) and daughters Jodie (26) and Cordelia (20) were each convicted of two charges under the same act.
Gray will be sentenced along with the other members of his family on June 12. (© Independent News Service)