Woman fined after lambs injured in dog attack

A woman has been fined after three lambs were injured in a dog attack in the Yorkshire Dales.

Payton Eastham, 26, and her co-accused Ryan Iveson, 32, had been camping in Worton Bottoms with their two dogs when the attack happened on 31 May.

Despite previously denying the charge, Ms Eastham, of Breconbar, Bainbridge, later pleaded guilty to being in charge of a dog worrying livestock.

At York Magistrates' Court earlier, she was ordered to pay £380 in compensation and a £120 fine.

A previous court hearing heard the two dogs, a Staffy XL Bully cross and a Rottweiler Husky cross, had not been on a lead or muzzled.

The dogs had crossed a river and reached the sheep field, where they had chased and injured the lambs.

Mr Iveson, of South Parade, Northallerton, pleaded guilty to the same charge at a court hearing in October and was ordered to pay a £200 fine.

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