A former Australian polo captain pleads guilty to putting more than a dozen polo ponies — 16 of which died during the journey — at risk of suffocation and asphyxiation when put he put them on the Spirit of Tasmania in 2018.
A former Australian polo captain has pleaded guilty to putting more than a dozen polo ponies — 16 of which died during the journey — at risk of suffocation and asphyxiation when put he put them on the Spirit of Tasmania in 2018.
Andrew Williams was taking the ponies back to New South Wales following a polo event at Barnbougle in Tasmania's north in January 2018. It is unclear when the ponies died, but it happened somewhere between boarding the Spirit of Tasmania in Devonport and arriving in Yarra Glen, one hour north of Melbourne.In the Burnie Magistrates Court today, Mr Williams, who was driving the truck, has pleaded guilty to using a transport method reasonably likely to result in unreasonable and unjustifiable pain and suffering and 16 counts of failing to ensure the horses were individually stalled.
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