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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence. Llancayo Flier The Guardian carried a story by Vivek Chaudharyon on November 10th, 1997 about the continuance of horse slashing in the country. Llancayo Flier was the pride of the village, a well-loved member of Brian Burton’s family. The horse, a Welsh cob, and former winner of the Royal Welsh Horse Show, was valued at £10,000, had picked up four awards to add to the 120 he had already won in his 13 years. Burton was going to let the horse rest at their home in the Rhymney Valley. As usual Mr Burton, aged 59, left his former mining village of Aberbargoed, South Wales, to spend the afternoon with the horse. He received a telephone call at home. “A friend rang to tell me the stable was on fire. By the time I got down there it was just a ball of flame. I knew Flier didn’t stand a chance. He was burnt alive. The firemen told me he died very quickly. Whoever did it must be very sick. He was well loved by the whole community and was part of our family.” As Mr Burton was coming to terms with the incident, another attack on a horse in the northeast of England happened. A piece of rubber tubing was shoved into the horse’s mouth and bleach poured down it. The horse died three dies later. A horse in Surrey had corrosive powder thrown on its genitalia; in this case four men were arrested but later released. While the attacks had occurred regularly over a ten-year period, it is known that such cases took place in the agricultural depression of 1849 but only recently has the equine world decided to do something about it themselves. Those responsible still worry psychiatrists and police officers as to their motives in the attacks, while medical and legal authorities claim it is difficult to build a psychiatric profile of attackers, while many of the attacks are sexually related. The figures are also a little vague as the attacks on horses are registered as criminal damage, vandalism, and no more serious but there have been up to 300 such attacks in the last decade. According to Ted Barnes, the boss of a 15-member run team of the International League for the Protection of Horses (ILPH), states, “We need to put more resources into finding the attackers. I’d say the figures we have are tip of the iceberg.” What experts do agree on is that the offenders are probably comfortable with horses, the reason they can get so close to them. Clive Meux, senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry and a consultant at Broadmoor Hospital, believes the pathology of horse attackers is similar to that of sadistic killers who target people. “I think that many of these attackers get some sadomasochistic pleasure from inflicting pain on animals,” said Dr. Meux. “You often find the human victims of sadomasochistic killers have wounds to their genitals and eyes. What we have with horse attackers is somebody with the same drive and passion but who chooses a horse rather than a human to fulfil sexual desires. But we cannot say whether they will move on to humans.” In Germany, where there have been more than 300 attacks since 1993, a former horse caretaker was arrested and admitted to attacking nine horses because of his hatred towards women. Psychiatrists, unable to catch a perpetrator of horse attacks, it is frustrating because they cannot figure the reason why horses are particularly targeted. There have been case of geese, hens and even guinea pigs being attacked but horses are the most common. Dr Meux added, “It may be because of the symbolism of horses in mythology and their alleged magical powers.” In the book, Pyschopathia Sexualis, one of the most comprehensive works on sadism and animals, written 1886, by the German sexologist, Richard Von Krafft-Ebing, are cases of men being sexual aroused by horses, pigs and rabbits (get out of it), and sadism is believed to be hereditary. The author also claims, “cruelty is natural to primitive man.” Llancayo Flier written by Bill Barber |
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