Stables on 24-hour guard after horses mutilated

Fears horse-slasher will strike again after Stirlingshire stables suffer five attacks in two weeks.

On a bright sunny morning just over two weeks ago, Helen - not her real name - received a telephone call that was to turn her life upside down. The 40-year-old horse lover from Bonnybridge, in Stirlingshire, was told that her beautiful bay mare had been mutilated during the night.

“My yard owner rang to say that my horse was lame and she had never seen anything like it,” said Helen, who does not wish to be identified. “When I arrived, my mare was standing at the bottom of the field with her head hanging down. I looked at her cuts and I was horrified.”

Both of her horse's back legs had been badly slashed in the third of five night attacks on horses in the area in recent weeks.

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