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Verwood man banned from keeping dogs and chickens by courts
Date of alert:
Monday, 3 July 2023
Crime Ref:
Force:
Dorset Police
Verwood man banned from keeping dogs and chickens by courts
Sonny-Joe Barney, aged 20, pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a chicken by releasing dogs on it.
As reported, police investigating hare coursing were shown evidence of a dog being set on a chicken. The chicken was killed in the incident, Dorset Police’s rural crime team said.
This incident took place in a field on July 7 last year.
Barney, whose address was given as Summer Fields, Verwood, appeared before Poole Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, June 27, to be sentenced.
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