Facing court, man who fed a sausage roll to police horse

[Bangyai]

A man who fed a sausage roll to a police horse has been accused of behaving in a “threatening or abusive manner”.

Mr Kelly, who denies the charges, is said to have simply thought the animal “looked hungry”. Photo: ALAMY

By Andrew Hough,

In a rare case, Francis Kelly was charged with causing a breach of the peace in Glasgow earlier this year.


Authorities say the 41-year-old broke the law when he ignored police warnings and gave the pastry to the animal.
But friends of Mr Kelly said tonight that he had done nothing wrong. He gave it a sausage roll because he thought the animal “looked hungry”.
Critics said the case was a waste of money and questioned why it was being brought before the courts next year.

Prosecutors will allege that Mr Kelly behaved in a “threatening or abusive manner” by attempting to feed meat to the horse.
The court will also be told that he “adopted an aggressive stance” towards officers when told to put the food away.

Court papers say the incident occurred in the city’s south on Sept 26.
It was, however, unclear tonight why the police horses were in the area or when he initially came into contact with the animals.
Mr Kelly, from the Govanhall district of Glasgow, was unavailable for comment tonight.
He is said to deny the charge. A source close to the case insisted that he would be fighting the accusation.
“His view is simply that he thought the horses looked hungry — daft as that sounds,” the source said.
Critics tonight took to social networking internet sites to express their anger at the case.
Many said the case was a “waste of money” and showed the world had “gone mad”.
“Seriously, is a man to stand trial for feeling a police horse a sausage roll … the world has gone mad,” Michelle McLaughlin said on the Twitter microblogging website.
Another user called “Lorraine M”, said: “Meanwhile in Glasgow.. Man stands trial for trying to feed sausage roll to a Police Horse. Yes you read right.”
Jack Harvey added: “Apparently the officer who charged the man said he heard the horse clearly say 'neigh' when offered the sausage roll. #SausageRollGate.”
Some online forums were also dominated by people joking about whether horses liked sausage rolls.
In 2006, an Oxford University student asked a mounted police officer if he realised his horse was “gay” during a night out with friends after his final exams.
Sam Brown, 21, was arrested for making homophobic remarks after he refused to pay an £80 fine. He spent a night in a police cell before charges were dropped. Police defended their decision to pursue the case.
Mr Kelly will return to Glasgow’s Justice of the Peace court next February for his trial.
Spokesmen for Strathcylde Police or the Procurator Fiscal’s Office were unavailable for comment tonight.

Facing court, man who fed a sausage roll to police horse - Telegraph

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Was it this guy?

[Albert Shagnastier]

A man who fed a sausage roll to a police horse has been accused of behaving in a “threatening or abusive manner”.

Mr Kelly, who denies the charges, is said to have simply thought the animal “looked hungry”.

Tough case this one.

[Mr Lick]

Francis Kelly guilty of trying to feed ham roll to police horses

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A man from Glasgow has been found guilty of breach of the peace after attempting to feed police horses.

Francis Kelly, 41, was initially accused of trying to give the animals sausage rolls in Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, on 26 September last year.

But officers told the Glasgow's Justice of the Peace Court Kelly had become abusive after they told him not to feed the horses his gammon roll.

They are vegetarian, they don't eat meat” - PC Stewart Coulter Witness

Kelly will serve seven days in prison for the offence.

The 41-year-old was fined £200, but Kelly was given the alternative sentence as he was unable to pay and is serving time in jail on an unrelated matter.

The charge against him had stated he had behaved in a "threatening or abusive manner" and "adopted an aggressive stance" towards officers when told to put food away.

Kelly, from Govanhill, had claimed he was walking down a lane when he stopped to pet one of animals and it tried to eat a sausage roll out of his hand.

PC Stewart Coulter told the court: "He had a gammon type roll in his hand, he separated it in two bits and tried to simultaneously feed both horses the roll."

The officer said he put his hands up and told Kelly: "They are vegetarian, they don't eat meat." Kelly was said to have become abusive and was arrested.

The court heard that problems caused to the digestive system of horses can prove fatal.

Kelly told the court he the horses had been blocking his path, and he clapped one of them on the neck.

He said: "That's what I was doing, it actually took the sausage roll out of my hand, I just let it." He also claimed that he did not eat gammon.

[Toby451]

I didn't think horses ate meat anyway?

The PC mob could have him for that one I reckon

[DrAndy]

just another Glaswegian pissed of his head

[Necron99]

It's easy to jump on this one, but in reality he did not get banged for feeding the horse a sausage roll. he got banged for interfering with police property and defying a lawful directive.
If he had tried to pour his stella down the petrol spout of a police car he would be in a similar situation.

[AntRobertson]

Pretty much. Sounds like he was asked to stop more than once and didn't listen.

[Rural Surin]

It's easy to jump on this one, but in reality he did not get banged for feeding the horse a sausage roll. he got banged for interfering with police property and defying a lawful directive.
If he had tried to pour his stella down the petrol spout of a police car he would be in a similar situation.

Still, rather trivial.
Don't the fcuking police have more important matters [like real criminal activities] to attend to?

[taxexile]

"They are vegetarian, they don't eat meat."

when offered the meat did the horse say "neigh"

[AntRobertson]

Don't the fcuking police have more important matters [like real criminal activities] to attend to?

That's a rather circular argument - perhaps they would've/could've been attending to more important things had this idiot not been trying to feed their horses sausage rolls and becoming abusive when told to stop. Things like:

serving time in jail on an unrelated matter.

whatever it is he's already doing time for.

[weewillywinkie]

What if the stuff inside the sausage roll was actually horse-meat?

[AntRobertson]

Given what has come to light probably not beyond the bounds of possibility!

[Eliminator]

So what the fuck, the stupid cop couldn't pull the REINS on his horse?

[AntRobertson]

Kinda not the point is it.

[English Noodles]

It could easily have been laced with poison.

[Mr Lick]

^ Scotch can have that effect on the body.

Maybe he was just horseying around and didn't know when to pull up in the final furlong

[The Fresh Prince]

If it had been a female officer riding the horse he would have been ok.

They love it when you feed the pony.

[daveboy]

It could easily have been laced with poison.

Or horse.

[wasabi]

You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make it drink.