WHALLEY STUD. Welsh Pony and Cobs in Lancashire

THESE ARE SOME PHOTOS THAT HAVE JUST BEEN TAKEN 17.7.08

THE FIRE WAS ON 14.7.08 (MY 60TH BIRTHDAY) AT 11.30PM

THERE WERE 7 HORSES IN THE STABLES.WE GOT 3 OUT

BUT 4 HAVE PERISHED.  -----RIP OUR BEAUTIFUL HORSES.----

THE POLICE, FIRE BRIGADE, VET, NEIGHBOURS, ALL MY FAMILY

AND FRIENDS ALL WORK SO HARD. THANK YOU.

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NEXT IS A STATEMENT FROM THE LANCASHIRE TELEGRAPH

DATED SUNDAY 20TH JULY 2008.

TWO DARWEN TEENAGERS HAVE APPEARED IN COURT

 CHARGED WITH ARSON FOLLOWING A FIRE AT SOUGH FARM

DARWEN. WHICH RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF FOUR SHOW PONIES.

 MATTEW OLIVER ROBERTS 18 AND A 17YRS OLD WHO CANNOT BE

NAMED FOR LEGAL REASONS  ( but I know who you are) WERE BOTH REMANDED

BY BLACKBURN MAGISTRATES. BOTH WERE BAILED TO ADDRESSES

OUTSIDE THE AREA.THE 17YR OLD IS ALSO CHARGED WITH BURGLARY.

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A FURTHER CHARGE HAS NOW BEEN ADDED AND

 IT IS NOW TO GO TO CROWN COURT AND IF THEY ARE FOUND GUILTY

THEN THEY WILL THEN BE FACING MORE CHARGES OF CRUELTY

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I have had calls, text messages, letter, cards, flowers, visitors in person

and you have all left me notes on my guest book.

 

I can't thank you all individually as there has been so many

so I am going to do it through my website.

              THANK-YOU EVERYONE

 

this is a link to the news from the BBC

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7506824.stm

 

the forum ------------saddlesoap

http://www.saddlesoap.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=52268

THIS IS THE LINK TO GO TO THE PAGES WHERE THE

PHOTOS ARE OF THE BEAUTIFUL PONIES WHO PERISHED

http://www.whalleystud.co.uk/whatsnew2008.htm

 

we will build new stables and start again.

THIS WAS HOW I FELT WHEN EVERYTHING HAD HAPPENED

BUT NOW AFTER 5 WEEKS HAVE PASSED

WE HAVE TAKEN STOCK OF OUR LIVES

 AND DECIDED THAT WE ARE NOT GOING TO REBUILD.

LUCY IS INTERESTED IN HER PONIES AND SO WE WILL

HAVE OUR PLEASURE IN WATCHING HER.

 

AND SO IT IS AN ERA GONE.

 

 

               

AT THE TRIAL WHICH LASTED 5 DAYS
THE OLDEST OF THE 2 BOYS PLEADED
GUILTY TO ARSON.( ON THE BASIS THAT
 HE ASSISTED THE OTHER YOUTH)


THE YOUNGER BOY PLEADED NOT GUILTY
TO ARSON BUT GUILTY TO BURGLARY.

SO THE TRIAL WENT AHEAD.
AT THE END OF THE TRIAL THE JURY COULDN'T
 COME TO AN AGREEMENT SO THE JUDGE SAID HE
WOULD ACCEPT A MAJORITY VOTE.

THE JURY ASKED THE JUDGE A QUESTION
AND AFTER THEY HEARD THE ANSWER
 IT THEN TOOK THEM ONLY ANOTHER TEN MINS
TO FIND HIM        **NOT GUILTY**


I WAS PRESENT AT THE HEARING EVERYDAY
WITH ALL THE PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR HORSES.

THERE IS MORE THAT I WISH TO SAY ON MY WEBSITE
 BUT IT MUST ALL WAIT TILL AFTER THE NEXT COURT
DATE OF 11TH MAY 2009 WHEN THEY WILL BOTH BE
 SENTENCED.

SO WE WILL WAIT TILL THEN AND THE NEWS
AND TRUTH AS I PERCEIVE IT SHALL BE TOLD.

my birthday again ----1yr on. --- to the day----------

both boys have now been sentenced.
the youngest got 2yrs community service and
 a tag  on his leg for 3 mths.
the judge said that "even though the jury found you not
guilty. I hold you responsible.  you took the other boy up to the stables.
you lent him your lighter-- and you knew he was trying to light a fire and you
walked away --and  told no-one.so you are responsible"

the older boy has been given 3yrs in a psychiatric hospital
the judge said that out of all the reports that he had recieved about him
 that 3 of the reports were very disturbing..and he was not allowed to make them public.

he commented that after reading all our statments that he was" heartfelt sorry for us all
and that it has been a very hard, complicated and stressfull case".

THE BIG CLEAN UP WAS DONE BY MY SONS ANDREW

AND WILLIAM AND THEY DID IT ALL IN 2 WEEKS.

I WOULD JUST LIKE TO THANK THEM BOTH.

THEY HAVE DONE A FANTASTIC JOB.

THANK YOU ---  BOTH