ROSS PARKHOUSE – DEVON CONVICTED | Ross Parkhouse, 35, from Barnstaple, Devon –…

❌ROSS PARKHOUSE – DEVON❌

CONVICTED | Ross Parkhouse, 35, from Barnstaple, Devon – watched as his two bull-breed dogs starved.

Parkhouse was found guilty of the following offences in relation to an American bulldog-type dog called Duke and a bull-breed named Blue.

Between 22/02/2024 and 09/03/2024 caused unnecessary suffering to a protected animal, namely a male American bulldog type dog named Duke and a male bull breed dog named Blue, by a failure to act, namely failing to adequately investigate and address the cause of their weight loss and poor body condition, and knew or ought reasonably to have known that the failure would have that effect or be likely to do so. Contrary to sections 4(1) and 32(1) of the Animal Welfare Act 2006.

No further details about the case have been published by the papers and it’s not known if either dog survived. Based on the relative severity of the sentence we suspect not.

Parkhouse was given an immediate 18-week custodial sentence on the grounds that the offence was “so serious because he watched the dogs starve”. He is banned indefinitely from keeping animals and cannot apply for the order to be terminated for 30 years.