A man who was filmed beating a pony in a supermarket car park has been banned from keeping animals after the RSPCA discovered she was kept in a dirty stable with nothing to eat.
John Reid, from Morecambe, was caught hitting the black female pony, named Pebbles, repeatedly for several minutes with a blue plastic pole.
He was heard to say "she's gotta learn" as he struck the one-year-old horse at least 15 times, the RSPCA said. Reid, 31, pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering by repeatedly beating his pony and not meeting her needs and has been banned from keeping animals for five years.
The RSPCA launched an investigation after a member of the public recorded Reid beating the pony on October 10 last year. Witnesses described how
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