CONVICTED (2012) | Simon Land, born 17/10/1968, from Congleton, Cheshire: battered his cat with a three-foot iron bar causing fatal injuries.
Land battered the three-year-old cat, Mia, with an iron bar after she leapt on him and sank her claws into his back.
He then took a shower before dialling 999, begging police to save his ginger-and-white pet.
But Mia was so badly injured she had to be put down.
Julian Farley, defending, told Macclesfield magistrates: “He couldn’t get her off him.
“He said he had only seen something like that in wildlife programmes.”
The RSPCA said: “No reasonable person would take a metal bar to a cat.”
Land admitted causing unnecessary suffering and was banned from keeping animals for five years.
Sentencing: £250 court costs and a five-year ban (expired 2017).