#MostEvil | Jennifer Jeane Lampe, born c. 1988, of Shropshire Street, Market Drayton – beheaded her two pet snakes with a pair of scissors after downing seven cans of lager in an alcohol binge; also drowned a hamster and abandoned a puppy and kittens

Lampe told police she had killed the snakes because she feared her sister was about to throw her out of the home they shared and did not think she could look after them.

The heads of the two snakes were in her pockets of her jogging bottoms and she was covered in blood when police arrived to arrest her.

Four days prior to cutting the heads off her two pet snakes with a pair of scissors Lampe drowned a hamster because he was noisy and “keeping her up at night”.

The court heard Lampe had also dumped and abandoned two tabby cats and given away a puppy to a stranger in the park because she did not want to look after them any more.

Despite this catalogue of appalling cruelty and neglect, Lampe was given an animal ban of just five years.

Sentencing: Four months in prison, suspended for two years. Banned from keeping animals for five years (expired August 2021).

Shropshire Star
Daily Mail