Sisters left devastated after rescue animals' stables stolen

A stable block that was used to shelter rescued animals has been stolen in an audacious theft from a field in Leeds.

- by Charles Gray

The stables were stolen from the Pudsey field in the dead of night. The sisters said that £4,000 of damage had been caused.

Two sisters who tend to the horses, sheep and goats on the field in Pudsey said they were "absolutely devastated" after arriving at 5am last Thursday (October 9) to find that the stable block that they had paid £4,000 to install last year had been stolen.

Michaela Midgley, who looks after the eight animals on the field with her sister Katrina Heseltine, said: "At first, I thought I was losing my mind.

"I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The whole structure gone."

Katrina said that the gates had been broken into to get onto the site before the stable was dismantled and taken away in a "large enough vehicle".