Make the punishment fit the crime

Today at Canock Magistrates court 19-year-old Mathew Corfield of Higgs Road, Wednesbury was sentenced to five month’s custody in a Young Offender’s Institution.

Some months ago at Essington near Wolverhampton and in the company of some of his friends, Caulfield trespassed on to a private field where he chased and cornered a piebald mare called Maggie.

With the animal cornered he repeatedly hacked at it with a meat cleaver.

Bleeding heavily, the mare was so frightened that she broke a leg as she tried to escape from the attack.

The court heard that Caulfield laughed as he cut at the horse.

Five months?

For hacking a horse to pieces with a meat cleaver?

B.

6 thoughts on “Make the punishment fit the crime

  1. Defies belief, worryingly. If said lowlife is prepared to do that with no misgivings to an animal he has no beef with, what chance a human ‘looking at me in a funny way’
    Sentencing is an odd and random affair
    Hope he gets arse raped, lots. (That might not be nice, but, hells teeth)

  2. sh*t, I can’t believe he only got 5 months – at 19 he’s old enough to go inside proper isn’t he? and for a good long time.

    Poor mare, poor poor thing 🙁

  3. That’s horrible. I’d like to hack him with a meat cleaver and see how funny he thinks *that* is. Can’t understand cruelty to animals. Just can’t.

  4. Hello Lis of the North, and welcome to this humble hovel. I find it difficult to comprehend how anyone could behave like that.

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