Final Disciplinary Action Decision
20th September 2023
Charge One (Rule 86B(1)(g)) Participant found guilty of offence of committing a serious act of cruelty on an animal (rabbit) with the intention of inflicting severe pain, causing death to the animal. Charge Two (Rule 95(8)(i)) Participant found guilty of the offence of keeping an animal to be used as a lure, with the nature of this offending being such that his continued participation or association with greyhound racing would be detrimental to the proper control and regulation of greyhound racing. Charge Three (Rule 86(l)) That between 22 August 2018 and 7 May 2019 the participant, an unregistered person, acted and or held himself out as the trainer of a greyhound entitled or intended to compete in an Event.