Slaughterhouse boss fined £8,000 for role in horsemeat scandal
THE boss of a slaughterhouse yesterday became the first person to be sentenced over the 2013 horsemeat scandal.
Peter Boddy, 65, was fined £8,000 after admitting one count of failing to abide by EU meat regulations.
Boddy, who runs a slaughterhouse in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, admitted failing to comply with the regulations.
He sold 55 carcasses without any record of where they were going.
Italian restaurants took 37 of them.
He dealt with a further 17 animals without documents on where they had come from.
Boddy, of Todmorden, was sentenced at London’s Southwark Crown Court alongside the site’s manager, David Moss, who admitted forging an invoice on horses sold on February 12, 2013.
Moss, of Higher Moss, West Yorkshire, was sentenced to four months imprisonment, suspended for two years.
Sentencing them, Judge Alistair McCreath said: “Traceability of food is of critical importance in relation to public health.”
