Suspended sentence for rabbit cruelty (From Clacton and Frinton Gazette)
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Suspended sentence for rabbit cruelty
7:00am Friday 15th June 2012 in News
A WOMAN has been given a suspended prison sentence for causing unnecessary suffering to rabbits in Clacton.
Heather Thomson, 26, admitted the offence at Colchester Magistrates’ Court.
She was given a two-month suspended sentence.
The animals were confiscated and she was banned from keeping animals for five years.
Thomson, of Third Avenue, Enfield, was also ordered to pay £200 costs.
