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Article: Student fined after animals die in car.
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- Mid Ulster Mail (Portadown, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- February 4, 2008
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A STUDENT who was found with 76 small animals dead in his car was fined [pounds sterling]200 when he appeared before North Antrim Magistrates' Court on Friday.
20-year-old Gary James Gilmore of Lyndesayville Road in Cookstown appeared before the court on a charge of permitting the unnecessary suffering of animals at Coleraine last year.
A prosecutor said that police had been called to a parked Renault Clio car at the University Halt in Coleraine on April 22 last year after being alerted by passers-by.
Police observed boxes containing small animals in the rear of Mr Gilmore's car.
The driver's window was open less than an inch and there ...