Geronimo the alpaca, who tested positive for bovine tuberculosis in 2017, is facing death after owner loses High Court fight to save him
- Helen MacDonald took legal action against the Government over her alpaca
- It comes after Geronimo, six, tested positive for bovine tuberculosis in 2017
- Was brought to UK from New Zealand in August 2017 and was in isolation since
- This year, MacDonald crowd-funded £10,000 in legal fees to have appeal heard
The owner of a ‘death-row’ alpaca lost her High Court fight to save him yesterday.
Helen MacDonald took legal action against the Government after Geronimo tested positive for bovine tuberculosis in 2017.
Veterinary nurse Miss MacDonald, 47, claims the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs was ‘relying doggedly on flawed science’.
Helen MacDonald took legal action against the Government after Geronimo (pictured) tested positive for bovine tuberculosis in 2017
Six-year-old Geronimo was brought to the UK from New Zealand in August 2017 and has been in isolation since.
Earlier this year, Miss MacDonald crowd-funded £10,000 in legal fees to have her appeal heard.
But in his ruling, Mr Justice Murray ruled there was no ‘compelling evidence’ that the decision not to re-test Geronimo was unlawful.
Miss MacDonald, of Wickwar, Gloucestershire, said: ‘I’m all over the place.’
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