Animals and computers were removed from Woosehill Vets in Emmview Close on Sunday, October 2. A dog was found dead on the premises. RSPCA officers seized three other animals from the building.
A spokeswoman for the RSPCA confirmed one of the animals found had died.
She added a man had been arrested and questioned following the raid, but has since been released.
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SMEAR CAMPAIGN
A dog removed from the care of a Woosehill vets by RSPCA and police had to be put to sleep last week.
RSPCA and police attended Woosehill Vets in Emmview Close last Thursday evening where they found bull mastiff Millie.
After becoming concerned about the dog’s condition, they called owner Alison Slade from Woosehill, who arrived to collect the dog and take it to Castle Vets surgery in Reading, where it was put to sleep later that evening.
Earlier on Thursday, a High Court injunction preventing protesters from picketing outside the surgery was overturned by a judge.
Woosehill Vets owner Dr Awuah Ohene-Gyan had won an injunction preventing a group of five people from protesting outside the surgery and his other practice, Ashlyn House Vets in Binfield, last month.
However, His Honour Judge Seymour QC described the application for an injunction as “totally without merit” at a hearing at the High Court on Thursday, May 12.
Protesters have returned to their “peaceful” demonstrations outside the practice, which have been taking place since March.
The group is made up of former customers and staff of the veterinary practice.
Mr Ohene-Gyan claimed in papers to the court that his business had been a victim of a “smear campaign” and adversely affected by the demonstrations.
The group named in the High Court bid included several former members of staff.
Dr Ohene-Gyan told The Wokingham Times this week most of the protestors had an “axe to grind” with the surgery and the protests would not stop him trading.
He said: “It is personal, because I am a black man. There is no way people
would picket a white man’s clinic.”
He added of the police’s actions last week: “The police took the dog because they wanted to just make our case worse.
“There was no good reason to remove the dog.”
He said Millie’s owner had been kept updated on her treatment and that another dog he treated last year had recovered from a similar condition.
Millie was taken to Woosehill Vets for treatment on Friday, April 29, after her hind legs stopped working and was treated by the surgery for several days before the visit by police last week.
The RSPCA has been investigating the business since March, when another dog was removed from the practice by police on Sunday, March 27, and placed in the care of the RSPCA.
An RSPCA spokeswoman said a case file had been submitted to the organisation’s prosecutions department for consideration, but declined to comment further.
A spokesman for Wokingham police said: “We were assisting the RSPCA. The investigation is being led by them. We are doing community liaison work.
“I understand there have not been any problems from the protests.
“They have been peaceful.”
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RSPCA PROSECUTE VET FOR SICK ANIMALS !!!!!!
The owner of a veterinary practice is to stand trial next year after denying charges of negligence and failure to provide duty of care to a sick animal.
Dr Awuah Ohene-Guyan, of Emmview Close, pleaded not guilty to one count of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal and to another count of failing to protect an animal from harm, suffering or distress at East Berkshire Magistrates’ Court in Maidenhead on Friday, August 5.
The charges were brought about by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) following the treatment of a lurcher at Woosehill Vets between Tuesday, February 22, and Saturday, March 27, of this year.
The 52-year-old, who only spoke to confirm his name and address, is to attend a case and management hearing at the same court on Friday, October 14, before standing trial at Reading Magistrates’ Court, which begins on Monday, March 12, 2012.
Magistrate Judy Tomlin said: “It is your duty to be back at court on the date and time mentioned. Failure to be here without a really good reason is a further offence itself and can carry a prison sentence.”
She granted Ohene-Gyan unconditional bail until the date of the trial in March
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