This has left my local community shocked and sickened.

[NFG]

Appalling & sickening

 

Who ever did this needs a regular beating whilst in prison for a very very long time

[Rob D]

Just shocking.... they really are inadequate scum.

[GardenKit]

The other worry is that the perp may live in the very community that is shocked and sickened.

Sobering thought.

[log dog]

what on earth can they get out of that ? we had incidents like that on wirral a while ago sickening ....

[easy-lift guy]

Hang em High, outside untill dead. In time it will come to that.

easy-lift guy

[Graham]

It's sickening and, unfortunately, not just a modern occurence. My dad often told me of these happenings in Staffordshire. The perpetrators were never caught.

 

Great Wyrley is also known for the Wyrley Outrages which took place in the vicinity between 1903 and 1915. These were cases of mutilations of animals, especially horses, which were perpetrated by the ‘Great Wyrley Gang’. The case of the arrest, conviction and imprisonment of George Edalji in 1903 as the alleged gang leader attracted considerable interest and still does today. Edalji was a Birmingham lawyer and the son of the local vicar, Shapurji Edalji, a Parsee convert to Christianity. The family had been subject to anonymous letters and hoaxes for some time before. Eventually the conviction attracted the attention of Arthur Conan Doyle and a press campaign was launched to free Edalji. Edalji was granted a free pardon in 1907.

[Ian H]

Absolutely sickening, words can't begin to describe the disgust and rage I feel toward human beings who can behave in such a way.

[corylus]

Why horses? Never seems to be other livestock (if that is the correct phrase??)

[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

Why horses? Never seems to be other livestock (if that is the correct phrase??)

 

Because in the sick minds horses belong to rich people. (some inlaws are involved with treating oddballs in prisons)

 

The mind boggles how some can do this at all.

[sasha.p]

Omg Thats really sick that person definatley need's to be caught its true what they say about killer's /murderer's start off by being cruel to animal's sound's like a serious physco on the loose there how awful for everyone