Cruel dog breed escapes jail: Richard Samuel Morgan abused 21 dogs
Richard Samuel Morgan Jones, 31, received only suspended sentences when he appeared before magistrates at Aberystwyth Justice Centre, mid-Wales. Some of his dogs were "close to death", magistrates were told at an earlier hearing, and council officers found decomposing remains in fertiliser bags. Some puppies had been neglected so badly that some showed signs of "extreme mental suffering".
CASCADE Richard Samuel Morgan received a suspended sentence for his 'appalling' treatment of dogs
Others had such severe skin conditions that they were verging on sepsis and gangrene. Most dogs had suffered with them for "weeks, if not months", and some had would have been "permanently scratching at self-inflicted wounds". Jones of Moelfre, Llanwnnen, Ceredigion, Wales, was prosecuted by Ceredigion County Council following raids by council and police at his home and at a premises at Y Shed, Gelligwenyn, Creuddyn Bridge, near Lampeter in June last year. They found 113 dogs altogether. Jones was sentenced to seven nine-week custodial sentences, given 13 six-week custodial sentences, and one three-week custodial sentence, to run concurrently and was suspended for 18 months.
CASCADE Some of the dogs Morgan kept, were on the verge of death
She also said the group was "deeply disappointed" that the council had waited until 2016 to take action against Jones after the group "repeatedly raised concerns" with the council regarding Jones' dog breeding business as far back as 2011.
Nine weeks' suspended sentence for such blatant cruelty is not justice. It's a total disgrace Ronnie Lambert, Puppy Love Campaigns
And he was ordered to pay costs of £5,500 - half the council's costs, and a victim surcharge of £115, all of which he must pay at a rate of £80 per month. Ronnie Lambert of Puppy Love Campaigns, an anti-puppy farm campaign group, said after the sentencing: "It is a very weak sentence and it wouldn't deter any puppy farmers in Wales from doing the same. I cannot believe it. It's absolutely shocking."
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CASCADE Morgan was forbidden from keeping dogs for four years
She also said the group was "deeply disappointed" that the council had waited until 2016 to take action against Jones after the group "repeatedly raised concerns" with the council regarding Jones' dog breeding business as far back as 2011. "While we are pleased he was prosecuted, we're deeply disappointed that it took so long considering that we first reported the barn to Ceredigion County Council in 2011 and repeatedly raised our concerns until action was finally taken in June 2016," she said. The court heard that many of the dogs in Jones’s care had been "suffering extreme stress and unnecessary mental suffering" after being locked in individual pens without exercise or contact with other dogs.
CASCADE An anti puppy-farm campaigner was shocked with the punishment