PROSECUTED BUT ACQUITTED (2023) | backyard breeder of XL bullies Aaron Harding-Beanland, born c. 1984, of Red Bank Road, Bispham. Blackpool FY2 9HX – for cruelty to two dogs kept at his home. A court accepted that Aaron Harding-Beanland wasn’t to blame for cruelty to two XL Bullies as he was in prison at the time Harding-Beanland pleaded not guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to two American XL bulldogs at his former home on School Road, Marton, Blackpool. Oliver Savington prosecuting for the RSPCA said one female dog, Marnie, suffered from hypothermia and dehydration and another, Sparkles, had a low body weight. The dogs were seized by the RSPCA following a raid under a warrant. Defending himself Harding -Beanland produced evidence to show he was living elsewhere at the time of the alleged offences. He said: “I was in prison seeing six years and nine months for firearms offences. “I was then released to approved accommodation under probation.” He admitted he had bought Marnie for £4,500 from a breeder in Preston before he was jailed. Acquitting Harding- Beanland the judge told him: “Certain aspects of this case disturb me. “You were clearly not living at the property at the time and the case has not been proved to the required criminal standard.” Lancashire Evening Post