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Sat 10 Oct 2008Stud owner wins cruelty appeal
A STUD farm owner has successfully appealed a conviction of cruelty to a horse which had suffered a laceration to its face.
Eamon Salmon (73) was sentenced to three months in prison in June last year for cruelty to the yearling. Athy Circuit Court yesterday heard that ISPCA inspector Brendan Hughes had seized the horse at Mr Salmon's land at Ballylinen, Co Laois, on September 1st, 2006, after a member of the public alerted him.
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