cheryl relins Animal Abuser

CONVICTED (2017) | serial animal hoarder Cheryl Ann Beatrice Relins, also known as Cheryl Stokes or Cheryl Harris, born 22/08/1991, of Drake Close, Taunton TA2 6TU – neglected dogs, cats and birds and kept them in squalor Relins, who also keeps horses, failed to seek vet treatment for skin and ear conditions, as well as a flea infestation, suffered by spaniels Ted and Amber.

She also failed to investigate lameness in Amber’s hind left leg and to treat a flea infestation in cats Pickle and Vera.

Animals were kept in squalor in Cheryl Relins’ filthy home Finally, Relins admitted failing to ensure the needs of all four animals, as well as a zebra finch and a budgie, were met by failing to provide a suitable environment after they were found to be living in filthy conditions.

Sentencing: curfew; total of £490 costs and charges.

Banned from owning or keeping an animal for ten years.

Somerset County Gazette Additional information As of March 2020 Relins, who is now married to Paul Harris, lives in a household containing around 14 animals.

She claims the animals belong to her husband.

Neighbours have expressed concern about the conditions in which the animals are living.

Update | July 2023 Relins was sentenced for breaching the court order banning her from keeping animals imposed in 2017.

Relins, now of Cleeve Road, Taunton TA2 8DX and using the surname Harris, had denied the offence but was found guilty in her absence in May 2023.

On Tuesday July 18, 2023 she appeared at Taunton Magistrates’ Court for the sentencing hearing.

The court heard that despite being disqualified for 10 years from keeping animals in January 2017, she was “participating in the keeping of various animals including two horses namely a bay thoroughbred known as Dobby and a grey thoroughbred known as Star” between June 11, 2021, and October 13, 2022.

The case was taken to court by the RSPCA under the Animal Welfare Act 2006.

She was sentenced to a 12-month community order with 80 hours of unpaid work and 20 Rehabilitation Activity Requirement days.

Speaking about the case, RSPCA inspector Jo Daniel, who investigated for the animal welfare charity, said: “Courts impose disqualification orders on people convicted of animal welfare offences to protect other animals.

“It is important for people to tell us if they believe someone has breached a ban.

“We depend on the public to be our eyes and ears and we take breaches of bans very seriously – as do the courts.” Somerset County Gazette