Jail terms accorded to three greyhound trainers for animal cruelty

There has been evidence that animal cruelty has been common among various greyhound trainers. This comes after three trainers were found guilty of the act and imposed various punishments. Two of these will have to spend some time in jail whereas the third trainer has been accorded with a long terms suspension sentence. These three men were caught red handed indulging in the Four Corners live baiting scandal.

For greyhound trainer John Cauchi, 18 months in cell awaits him. Furthermore, he was accorded with a 12 month non-parole jail term in the 18 months sentence. The convict who is the current manager of the licensed Boxhill Trial Track based in Western Sydney was eager to plead guilty of using rabbits as a way of luring the ‘bloody’ greyhound. It was evident through a video how Cauchi was trying to excite and entice his greyhound using a rabbit.

John as well as his brother Tony Cauchi did not try to resist their charge and pleaded guilty with over 15 counts of animal cruelty to their names. Tony faced similar sentence of 18 months as his brother. However, the sentence was suspended as it was claimed that Tony had a problem of intellectual impairment.

At the same time, Ian Morgan aged 58 and a trainer of Telopea pleaded guilty of animal cruelty and was accorded with a 12 month sentence. This came after he was caught red handed by a hidden camera back in January using a live possum in attempt to lure one of his dogs.

The video clip showed Morgan taking the possum to Londonderry property of Zeke Kadir a popular person in the industry who is known for his tactics of breaking ingenuousness greyhounds. The evident showed Morgan giving the possum from his car to Kadir.

According to state magistrate Fiona Toose, the trainer was accorded with the custodian sentence after it was evident that the possum inflicted pain and cruelty to the dogs. Morgan has to undertake 9 months of indoor sentence before being granted a parole sentence.

The three convicts were denied a chance to be close to any animal for a period not less than 20 years.

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