Teenage rider devastated after car crashes into her ‘Olympic’ horse Benny who has to be put down – dashing their Team GB hopes

A talented teenage horsewoman’s dreams are in tatters after a car crashed into her on a Cotswolds village lane – leaving her elite prizewinning horse dead.

Tinks Walker, 17, a great hope for British equestrian sports, went headfirst through the car’s windscreen and came round to find her star gelding, Benny, dying in the road.

The accident shattered the youngster’s hopes of selection for Great Britain in the Eventing European Championships for Young Riders next year.

Now her family want justice after Wiltshire Police decided not to prosecute the driver – despite concluding there was sufficient evidence. 

The family have launched their own legal

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