Mary Chipperfield Cawley and Roger Cawley Sentencing at Aldershot
Magistrates Court, Hampshire, UK, today 9th April 1999:-
Mary Cawley:
For 12 counts of cruelty to Trudy chimpanzee, £7,500 UK pounds
sterling fine.
Roger Cawley:
For 1 count of cruelty to Flora African elephant, £1,000 UK pounds
sterling fine
and to pay the following costs:-
Half of costs of Crown Prosecution Service, £3,750 UK pounds
sterling
Half of costs of police investigation, £3,490
A contribution of £5,000 UK pounds sterling towards cost of Animal
Defenders' private prosecution/funding of Crown case - evidence
tapes, witness statements, experts, summonses and legal fees (our
legal costs were £57,000 with a further £17,000 of special
evidence tapes/documents/evidence indexes of 625.5 hours of
videotape).
However, we were appalled that the Crown ignored our request that
the Magistrate be advised of his powers at sentencing, in that he
could have cancelled Mary Chipperfield Promotions Limited's
Dangerous Wild Animals Act licence, and had Mary Chipperfield
Cawley's name removed from the UK's performing Animals Act
register.
Now, the Animal Defenders must continue to fund further campaigns
and legal proceedings to have these permits taken away from the
Cawleys, in order that the conviction for cruelty does not become
a farce. Anyone convicted of cruelty should have such permits
withdrawn, and should not be allowed to continue in the animal
training business.
So good news today, but there is a way to go before all the
animals are saved.
Also, Chipperfields have voluntarily resolved to transfer
ownership of Trudy (the chimp) to Monkey World. So Trudy stays
where she is.
-
Jan Creamer
Animal Defenders
