Elephant abuse victim moved to new home

Anne, an elderly performing elephant, was ferried by a specialist team of handlers from her winter quarters in Polebrook, Northamptonshire, to the Wiltshire wildlife attraction.

The elephant’s former owner, Bobby Roberts Super Circus, agreed to the handover after a Romanian employee was secretly filmed kicking the elephant and striking her with a pitchfork. He has now left the company.

Anne, who has travelled thousands of miles during her performing career, was not sedated during the journey and was accompanied by a vet and elephant specialist from the safari park, said Tim Phillips, campaigns director for Animal Defenders International, the charity which conducted the filming.