Wellingborough man appears in court to admit repeated animal welfare offences
Date of alert:
Friday, 5 May 2023
Crime Ref:
Force:
Northamptonshire Police
A Wellingborough man has appeared in court to admit a further breach of a court order banning him from owning or keeping any animals.
In February this year, 61-year-old Kim Stark admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal, after Northamptonshire Police officers found more than 160 rabbits, ferrets, hamsters, mice, guinea pigs and birds living in unsuitable conditions in a property in Rushden.
He was also charged with the breach of a disqualification order banning him from owning or keeping animals, imposed in February 2000 following a previous conviction.
Stark entered guilty pleas to both offences at Northampton Magistrates’ Court on February 28.
On Tuesday, May 2, officers from the Force’s Rural Crime Team arrested Stark for again breaching the disqualification order, after they discovered he had been responsible for several horses, a donkey, and numerous rabbits and guinea pigs in a field in Hannington.
Stark, of Brooke Mews, Wellingborough, was charged with the new breach, as well as one count of causing unnecessary suffering to a horse, and appeared before magistrates the same day, entering further guilty pleas.
