Pair Spared Prison After Pleading Guilty To Cockfighting Charges

Two men whose “organised and prolific” cockfighting operation was exposed after they posted videos on Facebook have been spared jail.Bill Ripley, 45, and Moses Brinkley, 61, were handed suspended prison sentences and banned from keeping game birds for two years at Bexleyheath Magistrates’ Court on Monday, having pleaded guilty to a total of 10 animal cruelty charges at an earlier hearing.They were arrested after the RSPCA and police raided a travellers’ site in Bean, in K