CONVICTED (2014) | Hannah Katherine Bennett, born c. 1979, of Arras Road, Bovington, Wareham BH20 6JY – captured on video kicking and shaking her elderly pet dog
CCTV footage showed Bennett outside a shop on High Street in Wool, with the dog, Mace, following closely behind her. She then turned and appeared to say something to the dog before drawing back her right leg and kicking him so hard that he flew from the raised walkway through railings onto the adjacent car park.
Bennett, whose previous convictions include assault, drink driving and criminal damage, continued to pull and drag Mace by his collar after being remonstrated with by passers-by, but they eventually managed to get the dog away from her.
Veterinary examinations showed that 13-year-old Mace had tenderness to his abdomen and blood in his urine. Fortunately he recovered after about 10 days and was later signed over to the RSPCA.
Sentence: two-week custodial sentence suspended for one year; £80 surcharge. Five-year ban on owning animals (expired 2019).
Its very lucky, that Little Elderly Dog Survived.
People such as this shouldn’t keep Dogs Full Stop.