#MostEvil | Frank Lyn Lewis, born 16/07/1998, of 4 Penderyn Road, Cymmer, Port Talbot SA13 3SR – stole cats from an animal sanctuary to use as “live bait” for his dogs to hunt down to kill.
Lewis broke into the Ty Nant cat sanctuary in Port Talbot late at night and stole a cage with ten cats, which were being nursed back to health by volunteers.
Georgina Buckley, prosecuting, said: “Lewis essentially used the cats for sport. He used his dogs to hunt down and kill them.
“He caused lacerations to the cats himself to try and hinder their escape.”
Miss Buckley told Swansea Crown Court that three cats were found mauled to death in different spots near the sanctuary in Neath Port Talbot.
Four were found alive and returned but three others are still missing and presumed dead.
Ms Buckley added: “Post mortem gave the cause of death as the result of an attack and having been shaken viciously by an animal, like a dog.”
The court heard Lewis set up his sick game just two weeks after he was sentenced in a youth court for a gruesome attack on a sheep.
Lewis stole the sheep from a field and strung it up upside down to a tree, before cutting its head off with a machete. He then posed for photos next to its bloodied carcass and posted them on Facebook.
The police were alerted and Lewis, who is unemployed and on benefits, was given a referral order at Swansea Youth Court.
But he then went on to strike at the Ty Nant Cat Sanctuary just days later with a then 15-year-old accomplice, Thomas Edwards (aka Thomas Jenkins), born 02/02/2001 of 28 Heol Treharne, Blaengwynfi, Port Talbot.
Theresa Ahmed, owner of the sanctuary, read out a victim impact statement in court, where she called Lewis “pure evil and a being without a soul.”
Ms Ahmed, who built the sanctuary on the grounds of her family home and has run it with her husband since 1990, said: “The burglary has changed my life forever.
“The sickening realisation that cats were missing and what had happened to them will remain with me for the rest of my life.”
Mr Herd, defending, said Lewis accepted responsibility for the burglary and the deaths of the cats.
He said: “Lewis concedes his dogs were trained to hunt and he knew full well about what the outcome would be.”
Mr Herd said Lewis, whose mother committed suicide five years ago, had been seen by child psychologists after decapitating a sheep, who concluded he showed “psychopathic traits” and signs of a personality disorder.
He pleaded guilty to burglary and criminal damage at Swansea Crown Court where he appeared for sentencing.
Judge Paul Hopkins told Lewis his acts added with his “extreme right-wing views on race and sexuality” meant he was “dangerous.”
Judge Hopkins said: “You tortured a sheep before beheading it, and then took a photo such was your satisfaction at what had been done.
“You then broke into a cat sanctuary and stole 10 cats. You used them as bait for your dogs. They are acts of great cruelty amounting to sadism.”
Sentence: Lewis was given 30 months in a young offenders institute. Jenkins was given a nine month curfew order.
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The sick activities of serial animal abuser Frank Lewis of Cymmer near Port Talbot in Wales will be well known to many of you. If not, be warned that the details are gruesome.
In 2016 Lewis broke into an animal sanctuary, stole a cage containing 10 cats who had been nursed back to health by sanctuary workers, and used them as live bait for his dogs. He cut the ligaments of at least one of the cats to slow her down. Only four cats were ever returned to the sanctuary. The mutilated bodies of some of the cats were discovered while others were never found and are presumed dead.
During Lewis’s court appearance his own lawyer said his client showed “psychopathic traits” and signs of a personality disorder.
Twisted Lewis didn’t act alone that night. He was accompanied by a younger boy Thomas Jenkins (aka Thomas Edwards), now 18 years old and like Lewis a persistent animal torturer. Here’s what one local told me about Jenkins (treat as allegations for now).
“Jenkins has a long history of hurting and abusing animals. Former neighbours have told me of incidents over the years such as breaking the jaw of his ferret because it bit him. He also spray painted the eyes of sheep and boasted of hurting animals to children he bullied at school. He hunts and goes lamping. He is a danger to animals.”
In 2017 Jenkins allegedly went on the rampage at the local pub. Armed with knives and an axe he then broke into the house of a local woman but was brought down by her husband and son. He had to be tasered several times. He spent a few months in a young offenders institution but is now back in Blaengwynfi where he lives with his paternal grandparents and a Patterdale terrier dog.
Two weeks before Frank Lewis broke into the animal sanctuary he was convicted of cruelty to a sheep he suspended from a tree before chopping into her neck with a machete. All of this was captured on film as these sickos like to do. With Lewis as he tortured the helpless sheep to death was Zac Thomas. We don’t know a great deal about Thomas but if YOU do, we are all ears.