CONVICTED (2023 )| Christopher Silverthorne, aka Chris Newsome, born c. 2002, from Seacroft, Leeds LS14 – subjected a malnourished puppy to sickening violence on at least six occasions.
CCTV footage captured in March 2023 showed Silverthorne walking up the garden path before kicking 8-month-old Boxer-type dog, Ace, on his right hind leg and striking him on the chest with his hand.
He then grabbed the side of Ace’s face and tipped over his water bowl, forcing the puppy to drink from the floor.
Two further videos taken on 19 April showed him dragging the puppy by the neck and hitting him twice on the side of the face.
RSPCA inspector Adam Dickinson, accompanied by the police, visited Silverthorne at his home on 20 May and seized the dog and took him to a vet.
“Whilst waiting, he drank continuously for one minute and 27 seconds and whenever I made any sudden moves, he would react in a nervous manner and distance himself from me,” he said in a statement to the court.
“Following his clinical examination, he then drank continuously for a further one minute 41 seconds, clearing two bowls of remaining water.”
A vet who viewed the CCTV said Silverthorne had inflicted harm on the puppy at least six times by striking, kicking and dragging him upwards by the neck, while failing to support his weight.
In her statement, she said there was “no reasonable” explanation for Silverthorne’s behaviour towards the dog.
“The owner caused unnecessary suffering on multiple accounts by inflicting pain on Ace.”
She added that while Ace would have suffered “momentarily” during the incidents the “emotional impact may have a life-long impact”.
The vet said pictures of the puppy also showed his visible ribs and two areas of hair loss and said any reasonable owner would have taken him to a vet.
Ace was signed over by the defendant and will now be rehomed.
Sentencing | 10-year ban in relation to all animals.
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New Facebook account here. This pathetic little man has now taken his girlfriend Chloe Newsome‘s surname.
And he’s pictured with a baby. I’d keep that freak away from anything that’s vulnerable. Twisted beyond words. I’m going to share this to my tiktok and hopefully someone will recognise him and the area he lives will make his life hell like poor ace is going to suffer.
Agree whole heartedly with previous comment .. someone who cannot control themselves and has a cruel nature should be nowhere neat a child or any animal again. This man if you can call him that should be locked away he is a danger.
A weirdo who obviously can’t control his behaviour. He should never be left alone with any dependent creature.