Happy tears as owner is reunited with pony stolen eight months ago
Date of alert:
Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Crime Ref:
Force:
Avon & Somerset Constabulary
The owner of a 16-year-old pony who was stolen last summer said it feels “unreal” to be reunited, eight months later.
Miniature Shetland mare Maisey disappeared from her field in Castle Combe, near Chippenham, Wiltshire, on 12 July. Maisey’s owner Allison Wood found “scrabble” marks, footprints and tyre tracks, and believed someone had taken Maisey away in a van.
A poster with Maisey’s picture was shared thousands of times on social media but she was not found, until last week when Avon & Somerset Police received a call from a member of the public about a group of horses near the M5 in Avonmouth, Bristol.
The RSPCA attended the scene, and asked HorseWorld for assistance with “one particular pony in very poor condition”.
“We were already at capacity, with other rescues having been taken in just a few days before, but we knew we had to help.”
A HorseWorld spokesman added that Maisey was in a “shocking state”.
