Man Pleads Not Guilty To Causing Unnecessary Suffering To His Pigs, Goats & Cattle

By Alric Lindsay

Leroy Peart appeared in the Summary Court today, June 23, 2026, to face a mix of charges under the Traffic Act and Animals Act. He pled guilty to the traffic offences and not guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to his pigs, goats and cattle.

Regarding the traffic offences, Peart was charged with the following:

** Using a vehicle with expired registration along Shamrock Road in December 2025 (The licence expired in November 2024)

** Using a vehicle on a road without the valid certificate of road worthiness

** Driving without insurance

Concerning the offences under the Animals Act, it was alleged that Peart failed to provide adequate shelter, food, and water to a quantity of pigs, piglets, goats and cattle causing unnecessary suffering.

Peart is expected to return to court in September for a mention of his case.

Note to readers

Under the Animals act, cruelty to animals is an offence. Part 9 states:

Protection of Animals and Wild Life

70. Cruelty to animals an offence
71. (1) A person who —
    (a) beats, ill-treats, over-rides, over-drives, overloads, tortures, infuriates or
    terrifies an animal or causes or procures, or, being the owner, permits any
    animal to be so used;
    (b) by wantonly or unreasonably doing or omitting to do any act, or causing
    or procuring the commission or omission of any act, causes any
    unnecessary suffering or, being the owner, permits any unnecessary
    suffering to be so caused to any animal;
    (c) works, or causes to be worked, any domestic animal in such a condition as
    to be unfit for work, whether from emaciation, or from any gall, sore or
    otherwise, and whether or not that condition is caused by disease or
    deficient feeding;
    (d) wilfully, without any reasonable cause or excuse, administers or causes or
    procures, or, being the owner, permits, such administration of, any
    poisonous or injurious drug or substance to any animal, or wilfully,
    without any reasonable cause or excuse, causes any such substance to be
    taken by any animal;
    (e) subjects, causes or procures, or, being the owner permits, to be subjected,
    any animal to any operation which is performed without due care and
    humanity; or
    (f) tethers, confines or keeps any animal on a lead under such conditions or in
    such manner as to cause that animal unnecessary suffering,
    commits an offence of cruelty and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of
    four thousand dollars and to imprisonment for one year.

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