CONVICTED (2023) | repeat offender Richard Coyle, born 13 July 1996, originally from Blackwood, Caerphilly – caught torturing a hedgehog for a second time.
Persistent animal abuser Richard Coyle, of no fixed abode, was arrested at a house in the village of Crosskeys, Caerphilly, on September 29, 2022, where police officers found a mutilated female hedgehog who was still alive but covered in blood and a “white creamy substance”. The defendant was in bed, naked from the waist down and was wearing prosthetic breasts.
The court heard Coyle was lying in bed with various items including a cucumber, a vacuum pipe, a gas stove, women’s clothing, a shard of mirror, binoculars held together by tape, and two lit candles.
The hedgehog was found in a wooden box on the bedside table, and had a wound to her stomach through which her intestines were protruding. She was also found to have suffered a cut to the abdomen and three limbs.
The horrifically injured creature was taken to a vet and euthanised.
Coyle was arrested and interviewed but made no comment. He later pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal, cruelty to a wild mammal, and breaching a disqualification order.
In November 2020 Coyle was sentenced to 26 weeks’ imprisonment having tortured another hedgehog. His conviction came after police found a mutilated hedgehog covered in candle wax, with three limbs cut off and a visible broken bone.
The defendant was arrested and told police “It’s only a f* hedgehog, it has fleas” and claimed someone had thrown it into his tent in that condition. It was ascertained the person screaming “Help me” in a high pitched voice was Coyle, as he tortured the animal.
Coyle also has a conviction for manslaughter.
In mitigation, William Bebb said his client recognised the “severity” of the situation and acknowledge he would be receiving an immediate custodial sentence. He said the defendant served in the military and was previous Welsh champion boxer but he was diagnosed with PTSD due to his experiences of war and had fallen into drug and alcohol dependency.
Sentencing, Judge Rhys Rowlands said: “This was a deliberate and sadistic infliction of pain on a defenceless animal subjected to appalling cruelty at your hands…. This was just about a cruel a case as one could imagine and a mirror image of your previous offence.”
Sentencing | 18 months’ imprisonment. A 20-year ban on owning or keeping an animal.
I dont care what he’s been through. Absolutely sickening. Twisted in the head. 18mth sentence 20yrs ban appalling. Also haha the photo where he’s trying to show his abs lol. Put me off men for life 🤢🤮😷. Skinny rat.
When are we going to stop messing around with these people? Fuck speciesism. These people need to be treated exactly as if they’d done all this to a child. A child will be next anyway. This sick shit is a progressive disease. Torturing animals stops fulfilling their needs and they have to graduate up to humans.
Another Mentally Disturbed Scum.
It makes you think what else has he been up to.
Shit of the earth, no good for nothing, not safe around anything.
I personally hope he dies in there.
Totally agree with you , there are many offences not mentioned here , he raped my daughter , the mother of his two daughters , he set fire to his ex wife’s home while his eldest daughter was there too , he should be in a padded cell in a jacket that ties up at the back , I fail to understand how any judge can think prison is the answer , he is an absolute nut job and should have been sectioned years ago !
Far more than mentioned here believe me , a padded cell is what he should really be in with a jacket that ties up at the back ,euthanasia don’t seem a bad option either
Wow, Mandy! I’m so sorry this asshole had such a direct influence on your life. God bless you. I hope good things come your way. You deserve a break or three!
A boxer in the armed forces,
A 12 gauge cartridge will stop him in his tracks………
Gareth, It’s shame the stuff you see when you don’t have a shotgun in your hands.
What prison is he in? , probably Cardiff,
If a message can be sent to the other inmates about his crimes , hopefully he will have a lesson taught to him.
A murderer, a rapist and a cunt that abuses animals.
And I breath the same air as him.
The first logical step would be to start a petition for him to banned permanently from any area inside gwent, plenty of people would gladly sign this,
What is next, someone’s pet or thier child, he has already killed someone and committed rape,
He is not safe walking the streets.
The logical step is to start a petition to have him banned when he is released from prison from the gwent area,
I am sure a lot of people will gladly sign this,
What will be next? Someone’s pet or child?
He has already murdered and raped,
He is obviously not safe walking the streets.
When his mother was told about the crimes he committed on my daughter, her answer was ” he thinks he is Peter pan ” ! Peter fooking pan? When did Peter pan rape women, beat up Wendy, or torture their dog ???? She treated my grandchildren , Richard coyleyflowers daughters, like utter crap all their lives and prioritised that vile pissworm over his daughters , the whole family makes me want to throw up , because they wouldn’t come up to the soles of my two beautiful granddaughters feet , which is down to my daughter raising them both to be decent young ladies who I am so proud of , that sperm doner don’t deserve to breath the same air as the rest of us , nothing but a nasty vile little cretin 🤢🤮😡