James Gray, who was convicted on 8 May 2009 of nine charges of causing unnecessary suffering to animals and two charges of failing to protect animals from pain, injury, suffering and disease, is back in Bicester Magistrates Court again after appealing against his six-month prison sentence.
Local animal campaigners are calling on anyone who lives within travelling distance of the Oxfordshire court to join them in their dignified, sombre protests to show the court and the media that we have not turned our backs on the 100-plus horses and donkeys removed from James Gray's farm by RSPCA officers in December 2008.
Many of the animals were emaciated, filthy and too weak to stand. Some were penned with the rotting remains of other animals. There were mounds of skulls, bones and hooves. Four animals were so sick that they had to be euthanased on the spot.
James Gray has served just four days of his six-month prison sentence.
Read the Evening Standard article ACTION
If you can attend the court sessions, please email Fiona at Animal Aid, or telephone her on 01732 364546. She will pass your name and telephone number to the person who is organising the protests
Read an account by a local campaigner who has been attending the Appeal HearingSign a petition requesting that the Gray family should receive a life ban on keeping animals. The petitions will be handed into Bicester Magistrates' Court before the final verdict.More background on the James Gray case
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