Dog death case is adjourned

THE sentencing of an Oldham man for the deaths of two dogs left locked in a vehicle at a music festival in Warrington last year was adjourned on Friday because of ill-health.

Paul Cave (60), of Eton Avenue, was showing symptoms of a stroke, according to a doctor’s note.

He had been found guilty in his absence at a hearing at Warrington magistrates court last month after the bodies of two Rottweillers were found in a security van at Creamfields Festival in Cheshire last August. The animals had died from heatstroke.

Cave was due to be sentenced on three RSPCA charges, including causing unnecessary suffering to the dogs and failing to protect them from pain, suffering and injury in a prosecution brought by the RSPCA.

The case was adjourned until April 17.

The case was adjourned until Friday, April 17