AR-News: (U.K.) animal welfare investigator relates attack by farmer

[Mary Finelli]

Imagine how this maniac may treat defenseless animals.


The on-line article includes 2 photos.

VET TELLS OF SLURRY PIT ATTACK
Daily Mail, James Mills, Jan. 22, 2004

complete article at:
http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/standard/article.html?in_article_id=206458&in_page_id=2


A farmer grabbed a vet by the throat and held her head under a pit of slurry 
until she feared she would drown, a court heard yesterday.

Susan Potter said she felt terrified as Roger Baker pushed her face under 
the foot-deep mix of mud, animal faeces and urine. She told the court she 
"fought like a wildcat", kicking him in the groin and lashing at his face, 
but he would not let her go.

"At the time it felt like he held me under for a long time although in 
reality it was probably only a few seconds," she told the jury. "It was long 
enough for me to think that I must not breathe and that I had to hold my 
breath or I would drown."

Mrs Potter, 46, said her ordeal began when she and a colleague visited 
Baker's farm at Ventongimps, near Truro in Cornwall, last February to 
investigate claims of animal mistreatment. They had just found a dead lamb 
hanging in a tree when they were ambushed by Baker, the court was told.

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