THE RSPCA has been given permission to sell more than 20 dogs at the centre of an animal cruelty case in Paignton.
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| HEAD OF RSPCA PROSECUTIONS SALLY CASE |
His son Hamish Noon, 26, also of Blagdon Road, Paignton is accused of 23 counts of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal and one offence of possessing cannabis. He denies all the charges.
The court heard that 14 dogs were seized in February and a further 12 were taken at a later date. It has cost the RSPCA £15,000 to care for the animals.
Speaking outside court James Noon said he had been keeping dogs for 40 years and would be found not guilty of the charges.
During the hearing, in an outburst from the dock, James Noon said: "I love my dogs and I have done nothing wrong. I want to keep my dogs. I do care about my dogs."
Defending the Noon's Clive Rees said: "These dogs are evidence, as long as they are evidence I do not see how the police can get rid of them. They can put them into RSPCA custody but I cannot see how the evidence can be given away to a third party while the case is ongoing.
"Mr Noon has kept dogs for 40 years and there had not been a problem before. He does not want to pass them over."
He also said the application would 'deprive' James Noon of ownership of the dogs before he has been convicted of any offence.
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| PROSECUTOR SEWELL |
Granting the application for the dogs to be passed into the ownership of the RSPCA and sold, chairman of the bench Dave Thompson said: "The welfare of the animals has to come first. We will grant the application because there is an option by which you can appeal."
James and Hamish Noon will appear at Newton Abbot magistrates court to answer the animal cruelty charges on February 1.
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5 comments:
shocking, so this means that the arse pca can now just take anyones pet and sell it on to cover their extortionate costs, without even getting a prosecution first, isnt that also called THEFT.
How can the RSPCA justify selling someones pet who has not been convicted of any offence, this is outrageous, if they are allowed to get away with this they will do it as a matter of course with every prosecution case to reduce their costs.So if the RSPCA decide to prosecute you for whatever trivial reason they dream up you will lose your pet anyway, even if found not guilty.
(Magistrate)Dave Thompson said: "The welfare of the animals has to come first.
No it doesn't; that's children. These are dogs. Four legs. They are property; the only question being whether there are any grounds to deprive the legal owner of his title.
As no case has been proved aginst him yet, and we aren't in the territory of Proceeds of Crime, it doesn't matter if you are a magistrate - you are just nicking something which doesn't belong to you.
No wonder the country is, er, going to the dogs if even magistrates don't know the difference between humans and animals.
what do you expect when the rspca train magistrates and indirectly donate to political parties, they can get away with murder, in fact they do over 60,000 times a year
The RSPCA are scum
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