LOCKWOOD WOMAN BANNED FROM KEEPING ANIMALS FOR FIVE YEARS
Owner Gemma Gill, 23, of Horse Bank Drive, Lockwood, pleaded guilty at Huddersfield Magistrates’ Court to causing unnecessary suffering to her pet.
She was given an 18 month supervision order and a curfew from 7pm to 7am for eight weeks.
Gill was banned from keeping animals for five years and received a bill for £260 costs.
The RSPCA found Ebony, a Staffordshire bull terrier, in her kitchen on May 9 last year, with ribs and bones sticking out, and she was having trouble walking.
A vet estimated she had been without food and/or water for one to two weeks.
The dog was so dehydrated she was immediately put on a drip and later taken to an animal centre in Bradford to be looked after.
Ebony has now been re-homed and renamed Missy.
After being found, she weighed just 5.5kg but has since been nursed back to a healthy 11.9kg.
Court Outcome
Conviction and Sentencing Details
Sentenced
Detected legal outcome
eld Magistrates' Court to causing unnecessary suffering to her pet. She was given an 18 month supervision order and a curfew from 7pm to 7am for eight weeks. Gill was banned from keeping animals for five years and received a bill for 260...
Community order
eight weeks
She was given an 18 month supervision order and a curfew from 7pm to 7am for eight weeks
Disqualification or ban
five years
Gill was banned from keeping animals for five years and received a bill for 260 costs
