AN anaesthetist's assistant who received a £2,400 horse trailer which had been stolen from a Pershore woman has escaped going to jail.
Instead Lorraine Pegler was given a 12-month prison sentence suspended for two years, and was also fined £1,000 and ordered to pay £280 costs.
Pegler, aged 40, from Barby, near Rugby, had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to receiving the stolen Iveco horse trailer, after originally denying the charge.
Prosecutor Neal Williams said the trailer had been stolen in September last year, less than two weeks after owner Mary Fitton, from Pershore, had bought it for £2,400.
The following month the police went to stables at Eastfield Farm in Crick Road, near Crick, which were leased by Pegler for her horses.
They recovered the trailer, which Pegler said she had bought at Derby horse sales from a woman, whose name she did not know, who had offered it to her for £1,800.
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