#MostEvil | Terence Henry Simpson, born 11 January 1977, with a most recent (2022) known address of Syke Avenue, Tingley, Wakefield WF3 1LU – killed three of his six pet dogs with a hammer because he claimed he couldn’t cope with them any more.
Simpson was jailed for 20 weeks and banned from keeping animals for life after pleading guilty to killing the dogs.
The court heard that Simpson, at the time living in Embleton Road, Methley, Leeds, had been talking about getting rid of the dogs for a couple of weeks.
On 20 September 2009, after some hours spent drinking, he went out to the garden where the dogs were.
He then killed two of the dogs in his shed while a third – a 16-week-old puppy – was killed in the back garden.
RSPCA inspector Dave Holgate said: “These dogs suffered dreadful, brutal deaths which were totally unnecessary.
“The fear and distress they must have suffered doesn’t bear thinking about.
“He selected the dogs he was going to kill and the ones he was going to spare. Afterwards, he took the bodies to a nearby quarry and dumped them there.
“It’s tragic that he felt so unable to cope, and he is remorseful about what he’s done, but whatever was going on in his life it couldn’t possibly justify what happened here.”
The remaining three dogs, two adults and a puppy, were signed over to the RSPCA at the time of the incident and were later re-homed.
Sentencing | 20 weeks in prison. Lifetime ban.