Man, 18 gets six months for ‘torturous beating’ of horse

A man who gave a “torturous beating” to a horse that had to be put down was yesterday jailed for six months.

Shane Ryan Casey, aged 18, denied cruelty to animal charges at Limerick District Court.

Judge Eugene O’Kelly said Ryan Casey was “not fit to have anything to do with horses”, and any horse licence application made by him in the future “should be strenuously resisted”.