A disabled woman was traumatised after her horse was found with horrific life-threatening slash wounds.

Tracy Hornsby, 38, from Tilbury, who suffers from a brain disease, bought her seven-year-old bay Cob, Blaze, only a month ago, as a relief from her illness.

But her dream turned into a nightmare when her 15-year-old daughter, Toni, found the horse covered in blood with four-inch wide knife wounds on the morning of Saturday October 12.

A spokeswoman for Essex police said: "This was a horrific attack on an innocent animal who cannot defend itself."

Full report in Monday's Evening Echo.

Published Sunday October 13, 2002

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