Illegal farrier fined
A RYEDALE man has been fined £100 for illegal working as a farrier.
Ian Brown, of Nawton, near Kirkbymoorside, was prosecuted by the Farriers Registration Council and admitted nailing a shoe to the front off-side foot of a horse in Helmsley in April, when he was not registered as a farrier.
Magistrates in Scarborough fined him £100 and ordered him to pay a £20 victim surcharge and £150 in court costs, at a hearing on Friday, September 5.
As a regulated profession, farriers must be registered under the Farriers Registration Act, and under the act only registered farriers, approved farriery apprentices, vets or trainees, or people giving first aid in an emergency, can practice farriery.
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