CONVICTED (2012) | Jordan James Morgan, previously of Bloomfield Road, Blackpool, but as of July 2020 of Lydia Street, Accrington BB5 0PX – set fire to an animal sanctuary, resulting in the deaths of 26 rescue animals
On March 23, 2011, the then 18-year-old Jordan Morgan and accomplice Karl Heaton of Smithy Lane in St. Annes deliberately set fire to the Easterleigh Animal Shelter in St. Annes, killing five cats, four kittens, 16 chickens and one rabbit. The pair also caused £25,000 worth of damage to the premises of the cash-strapped animal charity.
2019 Facebook image of Jordan Morgan
As well as the starting the blaze at Easterleigh, Morgan and Heaton admitted setting fire to the Fylde Scout headquarters on Heyhouse Lane, a Volkswagen van on Clarendon Road, and a garage on Church Road in St Annes.
July 2020: Jordan Morgan has three dogs, one of whom has just given birth to 12 puppies. He also has a cat. Morgan’s current girlfriend describes him as “a good egg”.
We don’t have anything new on Heaton yet but any information on him, especially a mugshot and his current whereabouts, would be welcome.
CONVICTED (2012) | Paul McCaw, born 03/09/1985, of 66 Laurel Avenue, Newton-le-Willows WA12 8JA – stabbed an arthritic terrier to death before burying her in his back garden
Staffy Cheech “died an absolutely terrible, violent death” at the hands of her owner McCaw.
RSPCA inspectors visited McCaw’s home after a tip-off from neighbours who noticed Cheech was missing. Some reportedly heard the dog’s cries and yelps the previous evening.
Prosecuting, Peter Mitchell said: “He said that the dog collapsed in pain, so he took it into the back garden and he strangled it.”
But when inspectors dug up the body, they found the ten-year-old dog covered in multiple stab wounds and soaked in blood.
RSPCA inspectors found Cheech, pictured, covered in blood and stab wounds buried in the back garden
Mr Mitchell said that one of the wounds looked as if McCaw had attempted to “slash its wrist”. Cheech also had wounds to her head, chest and neck.
In total Cheech suffered 40 wounds – with one puncturing a lung – causing her to collapse. The dog eventually died, drowning in her own blood.
Mark Brown, defending, told magistrates: “He was of the view that Cheech was suffering and needed to be put out of its misery.”
He said McCaw tried to smother the dog, but it didn’t work, so he stabbed her.
RSPCA inspector Louise Showering said: ‘This dog suffered an absolutely terrible, violent death at the hands of an owner who had been responsible for her for almost her entire life.
‘Though he says he thought he was putting her out of her misery, he actually caused her to suffer much more with the actions he took. First trying to suffocate her then stabbing her many, many times.
‘I can’t imagine what this dog’s final hours must have been like at the hands of someone she loved.
‘It certainly wasn’t the dignified and pain-free end most owners hope for their beloved pets.’
Sentence: jailed for 18 weeks. Banned from keeping animals for 20 years (expires November 2032).
CONVICTED (2012) | Saima Bi, born 19/05/1986, of Sunderland Road, Manningham, Bradford BD9 4QJ, and Kiran Hussain, born 09/10/1993, of Ackworth Street, West Bowling, Bradford BD5 7HA – kept a skeletal large breed dog locked up in a squalid hot car covered in faeces because they said she was “violent”
Kiran Hussain (left) and Saima Bi were banned from keeping animals for just five years over their cruel treatment of a dog they kept locked in a faeces-ridden car
Saima Bi and Kiran Hussain, who at the time were living together in East Squire Lane, Bradford BD8, pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to Bella, a Staffordshire bull terrier-type dog, and not giving her a suitable place to live.
Magistrates heard a member of the public tipped off the RSPCA in July 2012 that the dog was living in a car parked outside Bi and Hussain’s then home in Manningham.
Bella was found lying beside her own faeces in the Seat car, left outside Kiran Hussain and Saima Bi’s home in Bradford. The couple refused to let the pet in their house.
When RSPCA Inspector Sarah Brisco went to investigate, she found starved Bella curled up on the seat and thought she was dead.
Nigel Monaghan, prosecuting, said the smell in the car had been “overwhelming” and that Insp Brisco had “never in all her experience seen a dog so thin”.
“The dog was almost skeletal with rib and hip bones sticking up clearly visible, faeces was all over the car and there were flies,” he said.
Bella was desperately thin and lucky to be alive after her ordeal at the hands of her cruel owners
Until the hearing Bi had insisted she wanted Bella back because she was a guard dog and loved her but she did finally did sign her over to the RSPCA to find a new home.
Defending solicitor Zanfar Khan said her clients both held their hands up to show “remorse and upset”.
Miss Khan said Bi and Hussain said it was Bella who got into the car and that because she was violent it was difficult to get her out.
After sentencing, Insp Brisco said Bella was now doing well.
Sentencing: 100 hours of unpaid work with five days of a low-level activity requirement; costs of £260 each. Banned from keeping animals for five years (expired 2017).
#MostEvil | Jamie Lee Blake from Thetford, Norfolk (currently at HMP Bedford) for microwaving a stray cat to death while high on crack cocaine.
Crack cocaine addict Jamie Blake from Thetford, Norfolk, and currently in HMP Bedford for false imprisonment
Blake cooked the young male black cat for three minutes in his bedsit while he was in a drug-induced psychosis.
Blake had befriended the cat, which he nicknamed Buddy, by letting him into his room at night and feeding him cheese and tuna.
He claimed that he argued with Buddy because he had told him that his mother’s former partner, now dead, had been injecting her with heroin.
After killing the cat, he later laughed and joked about his death with fellow residents at the John Room House sheltered housing unit where he lived in Thetford, Norfolk.
Buddy’s body was later found discarded in a wheelie bin along with the defendant’s microwave.
Staff at the unit viewed CCTV footage which showed him picking the cat up by the scruff of his neck and taking him into his room.
The footage showed him later leaving his room with a carrier bag which appeared to have the cat in it and then disposing of the microwave the following day.
Cat hair and other ‘matter associated’ with the cat was found in the microwave.
A post mortem carried out on Buddy confirmed that he had been microwaved to death.
Sally Dale, mitigating for Blake, said her client had a personality disorder which had been exacerbated by the use of crack cocaine.
Sentence: 22 weeks in a young offenders’ institution, banned from keeping animals for life
Updates
September 2015 | Blake was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail for his part in the systematic torture of a man over two days over a drug debt. At the time of writing (7/7/18) he remains in custody at HMP Bedford.
January 2019 | Blake was given an extra two years in jail after squirting a bottle of poo at two plumbers and a prison officer.
He was having the sink in his cell unblocked by two plumbers in February 2018 when he carried out the “disgusting” attack.
The court heard, Blake picked up an 18-inch piece of pipe and told the men to “get out” of his cell, before producing a plastic bottle containing faeces which he had prepared.
He had prepared the bottle as part of a planned protest whilst serving his sentence at HMP Bedford.
Blake squirted the bottle directly into the face of one man and then at the other, chasing them out of his cell and squirting them further, the court heard.
He then squirted the bottle into the face of a prison officer who attempted to intervene, the officer subsequently went on long-term absence.
The court was told the bottle’s contents had entered “the facial orifices” of two of the men, who had been left concerned about contracting diseases.
At Luton Crown Court on Friday January 11, 2019 Judge Andrew Bright QC said: “It’s hard to think of a more callous, degrading and disgusting series of assaults on men carrying out their public duties.”
Blake has 29 convictions for 56 offences.
While in prison, he has committed eight assaults on officers as well as two other offences, and has been moved repeatedly to different facilities.
Judge Bright QC said he accepted that Blake had had an “appalling upbringing”.
Two psychiatrists’ reports from 2015 and 2019 determined Blake had an emotionally unstable personality disorder, but otherwise had no diagnosed mental health problems that could be treated.
CONVICTED (2012) | Allan Staughton, born 8 October 1989, of Elmside, Littleport, Ely CB6 1LJ – put his girlfriend’s cat in a tumble drier and posted the footage on YouTube.
Allan Staughton put the tabby cat, called Princess, in the tumble dryer in his former home in Roman Gate, Godmanchester, on June 14, 2012, and turned it on three times.
Magistrates were shown the film he uploaded to YouTube and another forum, titled “You must see this – it will crack you up”.
The video showed the cat being put into the machine as Staughton said she was going for ‘a tumble’.
The machine was turned on with the cat spinning inside for 12 seconds before Staughton opened the door.
The cat was on her back in the bottom of the machine. Staughton then spun it twice more.
The RSPCA tracked Staughton down after the incident was reported by local newspaper The Hunts Post after a concerned forum member contacted them. He was found outside a pub in Godmanchester on July 4, 2012.
Robert Starr, prosecuting said that in interview he said that he thought it was funny and did it because he was having a bad day.
Vet Helen Dennis told magistrates that Princess would have been severely traumatised by the ordeal and it would have been akin to a form of torture for her.
She suffered a broken tooth and a tongue injury in the incident.
The cat had belonged to Staughton’s partner of four-and-a-half years. The relationship broke down over the incident.
Staughton admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
The court heard that he suffers from attention deficit disorder.
Celia Chignell, presiding magistrate, told Staughton: “We see what you did was a form of torture and the aggravating features in this offence are so serious that only an immediate custodial sentence is appropriate.”
Sentencing | jailed for 56 days. Banned from keeping animals for life with the right of appeal after five years.
CONVICTED (2012) | Dean Andrew Edwards, born 22/04/1968, formerly of Smith House, Stoney Lane, Walsall and more recently 40 Ingot Close, Walsall WS2 7DD – battered his dog to death before hurling him 60ft off a block of flats in an attempt to cover up the attack
Dean Edwards beat his dog to death and threw his lifeless body over his balcony in an attempt to cover up what he’d done.
Dean Edwards beat his two-and-a-half-year-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier named Diesel so badly his internal organs suffered “catastrophic injuries”.
He then threw the body of the dog over his balcony at Smith House. The animal was discovered lying in a pool of blood on the ground by another resident of the tower block the next morning, and police and RSPCA were called.
Vicious Edwards claimed at the time that the first he knew of Diesel being on the ground was when he was alerted by a neighbour. He told the neighbour he thought the dog had been sleeping on his balcony and must have rolled off the edge.
But when Edwards’ flat was inspected “splatters” of blood were on the inside of the balcony, the floor and also on radiators.
Baseball and rounders bats were also seized and Edwards was arrested.
A post-mortem revealed that Diesel suffered a “blunt blow” to his chest, causing “massive injury” to his heart and surrounding arteries. He suffered no fractured bones and had limited bruising to his body because he was dead before falling from the balcony.
Edwards has been banned from keeping dogs for life after he was found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.
Sentencing him, District Judge Michael Morris said: ‘I am satisfied beyond reasonable doubt you struck a fatal blow to Diesel and attempted to throw Diesel to the ground to cover your actions.’
A spokesperson for the RSPCA said: ‘We are pleased to hear Mr Edwards was convicted of the offences and the sentence reflects the seriousness of the offence.’
Sentence: six months in prison. Banned from keeping dogs for life
