CONVICTED (2023) | Brendan Dorothy, born c. 1994, of Bradshaw Street, Redhill, Sunderland SR5 4HR – kicked a dog in the face, injuring her jaw.
Dorothy was locked up by the courts after being deemed by a judge to be ‘incapable of rehabilitation’.
He was sentenced to immediate imprisonment when he appeared before South Shields Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, August 15.
Sarah Malkinson, prosecuting for the CPS, told the court how the defendant was to be sentenced on a charge of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
He also faced charges of assault by beating and threatening behaviour – all committed on August 26 last year.
Dorothy admitted that he kicked a dog in face, specifically to her jaw, and bit a security officer, as well as used threatening, abusive or disorderly behaviour likely to caused alarm or distress.
District judge Zoe Passfield accepted the defendant’s guilty pleas but concluded that the offences were so serious that only a custodial sentence could be justified.
This was due to the nature of the offences, as well as him using abusive language, his lack of true remorse and a determination that he has ‘no real prospect of rehabilitation’.
The condition of the dog was not reported/
Sentencing | 10 weeks in prison; compensation of £100 and costs of £300. No ban.