Talk:Horse-ripping

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The article seems to doubt that people are actually behind horse ripping. Though it may be so that sometimes injuries caused by other horses or animals may be mistaken for horse ripping, it is definatly not so in all cases. Here in the Netherlands, a man was recently sentenced to life in prison after mutilating several horses, ponies and a few other animals (most of which did not survive their injuries) and killing one and injuring several other people. Most of the animals had been cut around the genitals. BabyNuke 13:46, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Source? I'm not sure anyone has ever been prosicuted in the uk.Geni 16:46, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

There's a few dozen articles on it, but those that I can find are all in Dutch, like this one [1]. He was nicknamed the "Beul van Twente" (which translates to something like "Reaper of Twente", Twente being a region in the Netherlands) and googling for it returns almost 800 hits. BabyNuke 18:23, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

For what it's worth, it's a recurring phenomenon in Sweden, and has been for many years (possibly with an interruption, indicating than one or few individuals are responsible for most of them?) Sexually motivated, and AFAIK no convictions. JöG 23:10, 5 August 2006 (UTC)