CONVICTED (2022) | Adam Wardle aka Adam Lancaster, born c. 1999, of Bondfield Crescent, Wombwell, Barnsley – caught on CCTV attacking dog with mop handle.
Wardle was filmed punching and kicking the three-year-old tan mastiff cross, called Bobby, before continuing his cowardly attack by using a mop handle to beat the dog.
The court heard how the dog had thankfully escaped serious injuries, but a vet found he had sustained grazes, bruises and a bloodshot eye from the beating beside a bin store outside Wardle’s former flat at Holden Court in Barnsley.
In a witness statement, RSPCA inspector Vannessa Reid said postal workers reported seeing the dog being beaten outside the property on April 25, 2022, and they had spotted a man walking away.
After discovering the incident matched a report to the charity by South Yorkshire Police, the inspector went to an assisted accommodation block, where a housing officer went through CCTV footage recorded by a camera opposite Wardle’s flat.
Inspector Reid accompanied a police officer to Wardle’s home, where he admitted the attack and when asked why he had done it, replied: “He (Bobby) toileted inside and I got angry. Then he did it again and I got doubly angry and that’s what you’ve seen.”
Bobby was collected later from the property of a friend of the defendant, where Wardle claimed he’d taken the dog ‘for his own safety’.
The inspector took Bobby to a vets where he was checked out and treated with painkillers. A vet stated in his expert report that he found several bruises to the dog’s face, elbows and hocks, while Bobby also had a small cut on his left eye. He will now be rehomed.
Sentencing | 12-month community order with 20 rehabilitation activity days and 240 hours of unpaid work; £495 in costs and victim surcharge. 10-year ban.
Scum such as this shouldn’t keep Animals.
If you haven’t got the patience for Basic House Training, that a Dog will obviously need.
Then don’t get a dog in the first place.
Doesn’t deserve a dog so many irresponsible people get these type oof dogs mistreat them and then wonder why they turn
I have 3 xl bullys and they are absolutely adorable like little babies so loving loyal and great with people big and small and other animai dread Christmas when so many more people buy these dogs as status symbols and mistreat them x