A big
Thank You to Sandeep Kainth from Me
Wednesday 16th April 2008
I think one good thing that came out of the
Spindles Farm animal cruelty case so far, and it must have impressed
Deputy District Judge Sandeep Kainth, and that was the extent to which
the general public and all animal lovers were up in arms over his
decision to accept Mr. Gray’s request to have the ponies and donkeys
back, before the RSPCA cruelty and neglect case was heard in court.
I have received 450 emails over the last 10 days (some very lengthy ones
too) from people all over the country and from abroad, most saying that
they couldn’t understand how Deputy District Judge Sandeep Kainth came
to the decision he did, and a few criticising me for getting involved.
Well the answer is obvious the expert defence witness evidence given by
Mr. John Parker who informed us in his expert opinion that the ponies
and donkeys were in no danger whatsoever. How silly he seems now, after
all surely it must have occurred to him that something at Spindles Farm
was wrong, and that the horses had hardly been shown much compassion by
their owners. The very fact that 32 horses were found dead alone should
have sent warning bells off in his head, even if he only became involved
11 days afterwards. I hope that he will be more cautious in the future
when he is called upon as an expert defence witness.
It was a good and brave thing that Deputy District Judge Sandeep Kainth
did at Oxford Magistrates Court on Monday 14th April, to overturn his
own ruling like that and heed public opinion, it is no wonder that
everyone in the visitors’ gallery stood up and applauded him when he
did; he well and truly deserved to be applauded for his action this
time.
I am sure lessons have been learnt from this experience, I only hope
that the Animal Welfare Act of 2006 in this vital test case, lives up to
its name and looks after the welfare of all the animals that have no
voice of their own, except by the actions of animal lovers everywhere
who cared enough to sign the petition and make a fuss when an injustice
was so obviously done to them, I would especially like to thank all
those people who were going to come and support the demonstration and
blockade at Spindles Farm this Friday 18 April 2008 to prevent the
animals returning before the court case was heard.
God bless you all and thank you for standing up and being counted, and
let us hope for a fair judgement in the end. After all it is all about
the noblest of God’s creatures the horse, ponies and donkeys that have
over the years been faithful servants of man, let us not neglect them
when they need our help.
