Jews condemn judge’s ‘equine Belsen’ remark

A judge who described a farmer convicted of animal cruelty as running an “equine Belsen” has been criticised by Jewish groups for an “abhorrent” comparison to the Holocaust.

Leo Pyle, a district judge, made a reference to the Nazi concentration camp when he was shown pictures of a sick horse owned by David Davies, 58, at Brookhill Farm, Pinxton, Derbys.

Raya Kalenova, head of the European Jewish Congress said: “The Holocaust was the single most horrific and tragic event in the history of mankind. To trivialise it this way by comparing the way a farmer treats his animals to the murder of millions of Jews in Belsen is abhorrent.”