03.12.2011 – David Hill, Clacton, Essex
Sentence: 4-month jail sentence; life-ban on keeping an animal
David Hill, 58, formerly of Wellesley Road, Clacton, pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to four pet cats.
The court heard that Hill was due to be kicked out of his rented house. He failed to find friends to take on the cats and the RSPCA could not rehome them. Instead, Hill broke their necks, burned them in a bin, then dumped their bodies in a coal bunker.
Following a tip-off, police attended the property and found the remains of the cats in the bunker.
Hill told police that the cats hadn’t screamed and hadn’t seemed to be in pain, although the last one struggled and scratched him because he saw what happened to the other three.
Magistrates told Hill that he would have been jailed for six months if he hadn’t pleaded guilty. Hill will be able to apply to have the life ban lifted in ten years.
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