A former Australian polo captain pleaded guilty to putting more than a dozen polo ponies at risk of suffocation and asphyxiation when he put them on the Spirit of Tasmania in 2018.
Andrew Williams took the ponies back to New South Wales after a polo event in Barnbougle in January 2018 in Tasmania's north.
It is not known when the ponies died, but it happened somewhere between the Spirit of Tasmania in Devonport and arriving in Yarra Glen, one hour north of Melbourne.
There was a guilty plea in four and a half years and multiple court cases later.
In the Burnie Magistrates Court today, Mr Williams, who was driving the truck, admitted to using a transport method that would cause unreasonable and unjustifiable pain and suffering and 16 counts of failing to ensure the horses were individually stalled.
More to come.