Yearly Archives: 2019

Cats, Violent and Sadistic Pet Abusers, Worst of the Worst

Skelmersdale, Lancashire: Gary Chadwick

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CONVICTED (2019) | Gary Sean Chadwick, born 15 January 1999, of Firbeck, Skelmersdale WN8 6PN – battered a 20-week-old kitten and left her to suffer an agonising death

Kitten killer Gary Chadwick outside court.

Gary Chadwick pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court.

He killed the grey and white kitten, named Smokey, after he hit her so hard that he caused multiple fractures, kidney damage and significant bruising.

The kitten likely suffered for “many hours” according to the vet who carried out the post-mortem.

A carer for Chadwick, who has autism and had also previously been on medication for schizophrenia , discovered the kitten after she saw her struggling to use her front legs and heard her wailing in pain before she died.

She said Chadwick was acting “shifty”, claiming the cat always made those noises when it used the litter tray.

The carer left the house and called the RSPCA to report Chadwick for animal cruelty.

When interviewed, Chadwick claimed he had only ever slapped Smokey once during her short life but said he never threw or kicked her.

David Lloyd, defending, told Liverpool Magistrates’ Court: “I don’t think he intended to deliberately hurt the kitten.”

Adding: “He has asked me to inform the court, to say he was fond of the kitten.”

Inspector Joanne McDonald said: “We will never know the exact details of how the kitten came to have these injuries but from what the expert witnesses told the court it must have been terrible.

“Smokey was only 20 weeks old and the suffering she must have endured after the attack must have been terrible.”

Sentencing: two-year conditional discharge. Banned from keeping animals for 10 years (expires January 2029).

Liverpool Echo

Dogs, Worst of the Worst

Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire: Yvonne McAllister

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CONVICTED (2019) | Yvonne McAllister, born 1963, of Wordsworth Close, Oswaldtwistle, Accrington BB5 4QP – kept a poorly Westie in a dirty and flea-infested cage under the stairs of her home

Animal abuser Yvonne McAllister from Oswaldtwistle, Accrington, Lancashire, UK

Cruel Yvonne McAllister pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to the West Highland terrier known as Bobby.

The dog was spotted by a district nurse during a visit to McAllister’s home.

Image showing Yvonne McAllister's appalling neglect of Westie Bobby
Image showing McAllister’s appalling neglect of Westie Bobby

The court heard how McAllister told the nurse that Bobby had a skin condition for which she had bought shampoo but hadn’t taken him to the vet.

She had also bought clippers but Bobby ‘wouldn’t let anyone near him to cut his nails’.

An RSPCA officer later attended the property and said he was ‘unrecognisable to him as a West Highland Terrier’ with grey skin which was ‘leather-like, thick and dry’.

The officer said Bobby must have had the skin condition for an ‘extended period of time’ and he was ‘subdued, lethargic and reluctant to move’. When he asked to take the dog to a vet McAllister refused and said she wanted an independent assessment.

Bobby had to be put to sleep to end his immense suffering caused by Yvonne McAllister’s long-term neglect of him.

RSPCA prosecutor Paul Ridehalgh said Bobby’s skin was pink with ears ‘twice the size’ as normal and his paws were ‘overgrown and had begun to twist’.

Police were called to the property and Bobby was taken to the Myerscough Veterinary Group. Mr Ridehalgh said Bobby had to be carried into the consultancy room because he was ‘unable to walk’ and ‘so weak he could not stand up’.

The vet said his nose was ‘dry and cracked’ and she couldn’t examine his ear canal because it was ‘too inflamed’. His eyes were also covered with a ‘thick green discharge’.

The prosecutor said: ‘In the vet’s opinion he was in a very poor condition. She observed that she had never seen an animal in such a condition previously.’

The court was told that Bobby ‘highly likely had an underlying systemic disease’ which led to ‘secondary bacterial infection’.

Mr Ridehalgh said the dog had suffered ‘for a period of at least several months and possibly longer’ and had to be put down after ‘long-term neglect’.

McAllister said she couldn’t afford to take Bobby to the vet and ‘nothing was done on purpose’.

Sentencing: 12-month community order with 50 hours of unpaid work, a three-month curfew, ordered to pay £600 costs. Banned from owning or keeping animals for five years (expires January 2024) .

Metro