Visibly upset Janice Louise Denny has animal cruelty prison time reduced on appeal

A woman sentenced earlier this year to at least six months behind bars over animal cruelty offences and failing to comply with a court order restricting her ownership of horses, has wept while being told her prison time would be reduced on appeal.

Janice Louise Denny, 61, also known as Janice Northey faced the Sydney Downing Centre District Court from Dillwynia Women's Correctional Centre on Wednesday appealing her Bega Local Court sentence of 15 months in prison, with a non-parole period of six months handed down in March.

A visibly shaken Denny, from the NSW far south coast area of Tantawangalo, near Bega, was brought into the prison's video link room in a wheelchair and sobbed heavily throughout Judge John Pickering's summary.

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Article written by: Alasdair McDonald