Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Cock fighting pair trapped by sick vids
TWO men who ran cock fights were caught after posting sickening videos on Facebook.
In them Bill Ripley, 46, and Moses Brinkley, 61, could be heard bragging about their pastime.
The videos showed birds pulling out mouthfuls of feathers and pecking each other in the eyes.
Other clips appeared to show training techniques with cockerels being encouraged to attack dummy birds.
Magistrates at Bexleyheath heard the RSPCA raided a travellers’ site in Bean, near Dartford, Kent, and found 242 cockerels.
Ripley and Brinkley, who admitted being at animal fights, keeping premises for fights and keeping animals for fighting, will be sentenced on March 19.