Angel, a 12-year-old rescue horse, has formed a remarkable bond with Tarna, who shadows her everywhere and gently guides her away from danger.
The pair have become inseparable since meeting at The Horse Trust animal sanctuary in Buckinghamshire.
Angel is fully reliant on Tarna because she lost her sight when she was starved to within an inch of her life at Spindles Farm, Bucks.
A horse trader who absconded during his appeal against his sentence for animal cruelty offences has been arrested.
James Gray, 46, fled a hearing at Aylesbury Crown Court on 12 May and in his absence lost his appeal against his 26-week jail sentence.
He had been convicted of neglecting more than 100 animals at Spindle Farm in Amersham, Buckinghamshire.
Five people have been found guilty of neglecting more than 100 horses, ponies and donkeys on a Buckinghamshire farm.
Horse trader James Gray, 45, and his son James Gray Junior, 16, were found guilty of 11 charges under the Animal Welfare Act 2006.
His wife Julie Gray, 41, and daughters Jodie, 26, and Cordelia, 20, were each found guilty of two charges.
A SENIOR vet told a court today horses found dead at a south Bucks farm could have died in “one of the largest recorded outbreaks” of a worm infestation.
John Parker, the former chairman of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, said the owner of Spindles Farm in Hyde Heath was “not aware of the gravity” of an infection affecting his livestock.
But he also told Bicester Magistrates’ Court he was unable to prove his theory as it was several months before the idea came to him.
Mr Parker said he believed the horses could have died from a condition called cyathostomiasis – an infestation of worms.
A HORSE trader accused of cruelty today said he “totally disagrees” with evidence animals on his farm were starved.
James Gray, who owns Spindles Farm, Chalk Lane, Hyde Heath, asked why prosecutors at Bicester Magistrates Court had not produced pictures of allegedly emaciated animals taken on the day they were seized.
Mr Gray, 44, is charged with 12 counts under the Animal Welfare Act along with four other people, after more than 100 horses were seized from his farm last January.
