A dead horse has been left to rot in a field in Horton Kirby for nearly a week.
The black and white piebald horse was first spotted in a field off Mussenden Lane on December 30.
It is still thought to be lying there now, more than six days after a passerby first noticed it.
The horse owner, who did not want to be named, told News Shopper: "I was thinking it shouldn’t be lying down like that without other horses around to protect it.
"Then I passed by again and noticed its stomach was huge, which is a sure sign that it was dead.
"I’m disgusted because there is no way the owners wouldn’t have known there was a pony lying there."
The incident is not the first time horses have been mistreated in villages around Swanley in the last 18 months.
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