THE first RSPCA official to arrive at the farm at the centre of animal cruelty allegations today told a court of her experience.
Kirsty Hampton told Bicester Magistrates Court how she uncovered more than 20 equine carcasses and others with incurable infections at Spindles Farm in Chalk Lane, Hyde Heath, in January.
She spoke of the “despicable state” of some of the dead horses found in pens filled with faeces.
Miss Hampton told the court of one of the pens: “There was wet faeces in the whole pen and no food or hay.
“There was a water trough in the corner, with faeces in it.”