CONVICTED (2018) | Angela Roe (since deceased) of Birkdale Drive, Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston PR2 – live-streamed a video showing her abusing a cat who was later found dead
The sickening footage, which was screened on Twitter’s live-streaming video app Periscope – showed pet cat Misty screaming in agony as her owner, Angela Roe, bit and roughly handled her.
Misty was tragically found dead at Roe’s home by police after the incident was reported by a sickened friend.
Preston Magistrates’ Court heard the witness, who became online friends with Roe, saw Misty on her lap in a live stream on August 26 2017, in which she was “squeezing and shaking” the animal.
She was shouting, calling the cat a ‘pyscho’ and suggesting she should ‘not bite the hand that feeds’.
The woman then saw Roe bite the distressed cat’s ear, causing her to scream in pain.
Roe was heard to say it “needs to be disciplined or it will walk all over me.
Roe, who has mental health problems, was then seen to self harm and rub blood on the cat’s fur.
The worried woman corresponded with Roe the next day on Periscope, whilst Roe was drunk. She said her ‘other personality was going to come out. The bad side, the Jekyll; and Hyde nasty side of me.’
Misty was seen walking around and appeared to be fine, but the clip showed Roe put her on her lap again and say: ” Can she kill the cat and then kill herself?”
The witness pleaded with Roe saying: “Don’t do that – if you don’t want the cat I will give it a home.”
The court heard Roe told her viewer the only way she would kill her is by ‘starving her’. The woman could then hear the cat screaming but the video then ended.
Prosecuting for the RSPCA, Paul Ridehalgh said: ” Around 25 minutes later the broadcast resumed and the defendant typed:”My cat has just attacked me” and claimed Misty was ‘demonic’.”
The concerned friend asked what had happened and Roe told her the cat had attacked her and turned her phone camera around to show blood on the table, wall, skirting board and door in her home, which Roe claimed had come from her finger.
Mr Ridehalgh added: “When she was asked where Misty was she ‘became very aggressive and hissed like a cat’ at the screen.”
Roe claimed Misty was asleep on a ledge in the living room, but when the woman saw the cat it looked ‘stiff’, and she called the police.
When officers arrived they found Misty dead on the window sill, with blood on her.
Roe, who was drunk, claimed it was from her own self harming and said the cat was asleep. There were dirty dishes and rubbish strewn over the floor.
Misty’s body was taken to a veterinary pathology department in Liverpool, which indicated the cat, who had various injuries, including a haemorrhage in her lungs and bruises, had died from being smothered.
Roe was not convicted of this as there was insufficient evidence she was directly responsible, but she admitted causing Misty unnecessary suffering and failing to meet her needs.
The court heard in March 2018 police attended Roe’s home again to speak to her and she declared: “There is a video dating back to August this year. The cat bit me and I bit her back. I was ******** out of my head.”
Roe thanked the bench as they agreed to suspend her 12 week jail term for a year on account of her mental health and alcohol issues. The chairman of the bench noted her “deliberate attempt to cause suffering” and added: ” The act was purely intentional as far as you were concerned.”
Sentencing:
12 weeks in prison, suspended for a year; rehabilitation activity and alcohol treatment requirement. Total costs and charges of £490. Banned from keeping animals for life.
Source: Lancashire Post (article removed)
Update August 2019
We are advised that Angela Roe has died.
Pure evil nothing more to say
How sad for the cat, to be tormented to death. That piece of shit don’t deserve to have any pet for life. And God help what she would do if she ever had children, probably something sinister.
She’s got two kids. Thankfully they aren’t in her care.
What a Evil Cruel Ratttt! Could not even watch it was enough to read and who keeps a eye on these cruel bastards?
When there banned from keeping animals ?
Please tell me.
I think the RSPCA pretty much relies on tip-offs from members of the public. Not great, is it?
The thing is the though RSPCA didn’t do nothing way back in August of last year when she got reported and god knows how many times she got reported until it ended fatally. They just wasn’t interested.
I just found out angela hung herself back in july
She wants a Tattoo on her forehead to saying” Animal killer ” Then nobody would sell her a Animal.
And who will be following this up in the following years to make sure she doesn’t have any pets if she has been banned for life from keeping them? Nobody, so she could easily do this again in future couldn’t she? There is no deterrent only excuses.
Just found out angela Hong herself back in july
The RSPCA do nothing as usual & another animal suffers & dies at the hands of an unstable person. When will there be a shake up in the law preventing people like this from being allowed to keep or go near any animal? There should be a vetting process that every person goes through before they are allowed to keep an animal but of course that costs money so it won’t happen & more animals will suffer & die! It’s like an epidemic of constant animal cruelty & no improvement in the laws or powers supposed to protect them. Frustrating, angering & disgraceful!
Thing is thought she didn’t get it from the RSPCA. She got it from Sphock from s girl in Blackpool. The girl came round to see if her flat was suitable. How she could see that her flat was habitable for a cat I really don’t know as her flat is the type where you have to wipe your feet on the way out. It’s absolutely disgusting. It’s filthy. She uses the living room as a rubbish bin. There’s rubbish strewn all over the floor. But then the person who was giving the poor cat away for free, couldn’t of thought much about it in the first place if she was giving it away! The RSPCA came out multiple times over the course of5 months and they didn’t do nothing. They could have quite easily have prevented this from happening, but what can you do when they closed the local RSPCA down in Preston due to neglect of the animals in their care. It really does say a lot doesn’t it. When I had the misfortune of being in he company at hers, she would pick the cat up and literally chuck it from one side of the living room to the other. Then there was the time that she gave it lager instead of water and said it will “be right” and it’s “just having a drink with it’s mum”. She’s vile. She hasn’t got any mental health issues whatsoever. The only thing that she suffers from is alcoholism and as a result of that she turns evil and does evil and sadistic things. She were back on periscope on Friday denying that it weren’t her in the video, that she’s never been to court, her name ain’t Atkinson (married name) or Roe (her maiden name). On that fatal day, she even had the audacity to turn round and say it ain’t my cats blood, it’s my sons blood. She doesn’t even see her kids or anything.
Nasty little bastard needs to be hung, so cruel
Angela hung herself I found out today
I heard she’d died but didn’t know how. Thanks for the update.
Tour welcome thought I havent seen her on periscope is that where u new her from