Illegal farrier fined

PERFORMING farriery illegally on two horses cost Mossley man Barry Woods £1,015.

Tameside magistrates fined Woods, of Manchester Road, £250 with £750 costs and a £15 victim surcharge after he admitted carrying out unlawful farriery.

The prosecution was brought by the Farriers Registration Council, which said the sentence was disappointingly lenient for a man who has now been successfully prosecuted four times.

It is a criminal offence for anyone other than a registered farrier, approved farriery apprentice or veterinary surgeon to shoe a horse, or otherwise carry out farriery.

Woods, who is none of these, admitted undertaking farriery on two horses at a farm in Stalybridge between October 29 and November 7, 2011.