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Cats, Domestic Violence - Animals Targeted, Violent and Sadistic Pet Abusers, Worst of the Worst

Lowestoft, East Suffolk: Danny Williams

May 18, 2024 misanthropic 1 Comment

CONVICTED (2024) | violent career criminal Daniel Williams, born c. 1993, of no fixed abode but with links to multiple areas of Suffolk and Norfolk* – killed a pet cat and left another with such serious injuries she had to be put down.

Sadistic cat killer Danny Williams, who has links to various parts of Norfolk and Suffolk

Williams was sentenced to a total of four years and six months’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to the following charges:

Two counts of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal – 24 months’ imprisonment to run consecutively and 24 months’ imprisonment to run concurrently.
Intentional suffocation – 14 months’ imprisonment.
Threatening to disclose private sexual photographs and images with intent to cause distress – 2 months’ imprisonment to run concurrently.
Two counts of sending an electronic communication containing a threat – 10 months’ and 6 months’ imprisonment to run consecutively.
Two counts of damaging property – One month’s imprisonment for each count to run concurrently.

Early reports stated that Williams had attacked the cats with a baseball bat.

The crimes were committed during 2022 after Williams entered a property in Lowestoft.

Other incidents included smashing windows of a business in the area as well as sending threatening messages to individuals that included threatening to assault someone with a baseball bat.

Detective Constable Matthew Fox of Suffolk Police said: “Williams’ behaviour during this period was controlling, it was threatening and it was severe; culminating in the brutal attack on two defenceless and innocent animals.

“He failed to control his emotions in the most extreme manner and has caused damage to cars, buildings and businesses, but most of all he has caused untold damage to the lives of a number of people.

“Now he will have time in prison to consider the fear and pain he has put onto other people, in the knowledge that even once released, if he breaches the conditions placed on him, he will face yet further punishment.”

Sentencing | 54-month custodial sentence, 10-year restraining order. A 10-year disqualification order applicable to all animals.

Suffolk Police
Suffolk News

*Williams’ last address before his latest bout of imprisonment was Orchard Close, Boughton, King’s Lynn, Norfolk. He has links to the following areas: Dereham, Norwich, North Walsham, Lowestoft, Diss, Swaffham, Attleborough, Bungay/

Animal Abandonment, Reptiles / Exotics

Holt, Norfolk: Ricky McWee

March 6, 2022 misanthropic Leave a comment

CONVICTED (2022) | Ricky James McWee, born 23 November 1993, of Princess Court, Holt NR25 6BY – kept four snakes in disgusting conditions.

Reptile breeder McWee was found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to a reticulated python by failing to ensure the animal received care from a vet for a swelling to its mouth.

He was also convicted of two counts of failing to ensure the welfare of his four snakes. He had denied all charges.

The court heard that McWee and his ex-girlfriend Laura Graham had lived together at a flat on Cabbell Road in Cromer, Norfolk until they broke up in December 2020.

The pair of them ran a reptile breeding business from the flat named RnL Reptiles.

Laura Graham. Picture: Facebook. — Laura Graham, who describes herself in her Facebook profile as an “animal rescuer”, was a partner in the breeding business but appears to have washed her hands of any responsibility towards their care after she and McWee split.

Despite this, Graham told Hazel Stevens, prosecuting, that McWee was responsible for the snakes.

She said he was made to move out of the flat on February 17, 2021, after his dog bit her and that he was not to come back without police presence.

She told the court that she called the RSPCA on February 24 after seeing that the room where the snakes were being kept was a “pigsty”.

“I had asked him to come sort them out. He never did,” she said.

The court heard that RSPCA officer Dean Astiberry inspected the flat on February 26 and found a “very strong smell of reptile faeces, urine and rotting animals” in the bedroom where the snakes were being kept.

Their vivariums were dirty and contained faeces and old skin, he said.
In one vivarium there were two reticulated pythons in one enclosure. One of them was 12 foot long and was “dehydrated and underweight”.

The other, ten foot long, was suffering from mouth rot and was later taken to a vet but the infection was so extensive the animal needed to be euthanised.

One of the two Burmese pythons had odd breathing and no water.

The court also heard from a statement by Dillon Prest, of Swallow Aquatics in East Harling, who said conditions were “disgusting” and it was “very likely the animals had been neglected for quite some time”.

McWee told the court that he and Graham had bought the snakes together and that when he was living in the flat they were “well looked after”.

The chairperson of the bench said they realised McWee had difficulties after the break up but he had “made no alternative arrangements for the welfare of the animals”.

Sentencing: McWee was fined £100 and ordered to pay costs of £450 and a victim surcharge of £95.

North Norfolk News

Cats, Lifers, Violent and Sadistic Pet Abusers, Worst of the Worst

Briston, Norfolk: Beverley Lowe

June 3, 2021 misanthropic 14 Comments

#MostEvil | Beverley Lowe (aka Beverley Atterbury), born 5 April 2001, of Old Post Road, Briston, Melton Constable NR24 7NB – drowned her two cats in the bath and dumped their bodies in her wheelie bin

Mother-of-one Lowe pleaded guilty to two counts of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.

The court heard how the cats – a black-and-white male called Gizmo and a tortoiseshell female called Delilah – would have suffered “fear, distress and panic” for at least four minutes when Lowe killed them in the bath at her home on October 22, 2020.

Johnathon Eales, prosecuting, said the dead cats were found wrapped in towels in a wheelie bin at Lowe’s house on October 24, after a friend of hers reported the matter.

The following day the RSPCA confiscated another cat and a pet chihuahua from Lowe.

Lowe had told authorities the cats had wandered outside when she left the door open while putting the rubbish out. She said she later found the cats with blood on them and that they had been in a road accident, so she put them in the bath to wash off the blood, and they drowned.

But an expert who investigated dismissed this claim, and said that while the cats had been through a “blunt force trauma”, the signs did not match a road accident.

Mr Eales said Lowe had no previous convictions and this was her first court appearance. He said: “This still leaves the burning question of why? Why do such a thing?”

Addressing the court, Lowe said: “I know what I did was wrong and I shouldn’t have done it. One of the witnesses kind of led me to kill the cats because she said that she would have done it after I said what had happened. Also because I was pregnant it was really stressful and it kind of led me to kill the cats anyway.”

Presiding magistrate Mary Wyndham said: “The harm was high because both cats, because of your treatment, were killed, and in a violent manner. And we’ve heard from an expert in this matter that great suffering was caused to both of these animals.”

Sentencing 18-month suspended jail sentence; costs of £728. Banned from owning pets for life.

Eastern Daily Press
Fakenham & Wells Times

Animal Abandonment, Cats

Wisbech, Cambridgeshire: Winston and Angela Amos

January 10, 2018 misanthropic 2 Comments

CONVICTED (2018) | Winston J Amos, born 10 November 1973, and Angela Amos, born 7 March 1967, both of Norwich Road, Wisbech PE13 2AT – abandoned their two cats when they moved house

Winston and Angela Amos who left their pets behind when they moved house — Winston and Angela Amos left their pets behind when they moved house

Winston and Angela Amos locked cats Fluffy and Smudge outside their home in Great Ryburgh, north Norfolk, then moved almost 40 miles away to a new property in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

Jonathan Eales, prosecuting, said a neighbour in Great Ryburgh first called the RSPCA when she saw the Amoses take some property on the bus and leave the cats in the kitchen, though they did return days later.

Both cats were infested with ear mites and one was pregnant — Both cats were infested with ear mites and Fluffy (pictured) was pregnant

The RSPCA advised the neighbour to contact them if it happened again.

“Two days later Mr and Mrs Amos left the property and never returned,” said Mr Eales. “This time they turfed the cats outside and abandoned them.

“The cats were hanging round the front of the house.”

The couple were both charged with two counts of failing to meet the welfare needs of a cat or to protect a cat from suffering as a consequence of being left unattended at a property.

Mr Eales said the neighbour had kept the cats fed and watered while they were locked out.

The RSPCA visited the property at least five times between March 20 and 28, 2017, leaving notices on the door before eventually taking the cats into RSPCA care.

The defendants did not attend the court hearing.

Mr Amos admitted the offences in a letter sent to the court. He was sentenced in September 2017.

The case against Mrs Amos was adjourned until November 2017 while efforts were made to contact her. She was ultimately sentenced in January 2018.

Inspector Dean Astilberry tracked the couple down to their new address in Wisbech.

“Each of them admitted they were the owners of the two cats, that they had moved and were in a hurry,” said Mr Eales.

Angela Amos told RSPCA inspector Dean Astillberry that the two cats had ran away but prosecutor Mr Eales said this was untrue.

He added: “Reasonable owners would ensure there was a safe shelter for the cats if they returned home and they would ensure fresh food and water was available.

“Most owners would go back to the house on a regular basis, responsible owners would speak to neighbours and ask for contact if the cats returned.”

One of the cats was pregnant and both were suffering from ear mites and a flea infestation.

“They simply abandoned them, presumably hoping they would survive,” said Mr Eales.

“This type of behaviour, unfortunately, has become quite common, with people thinking just because they live outside they can survive.

“That’s simply unacceptable.”

In his letter to the court, Mr Amos admitted leaving the cats, said he had suffered from depression and anxiety, had been out of work and had tried to kill himself.

The court heard he had previously left three cats at a property after a house swap but collected them when the woman he had swapped houses with threatened to call the RSPCA.

It is understood both cats were rehomed.

Sentencing:
Winston Amos – ordered to pay a total of £560 in fines and costs.
Angela Amos – £400 in fines and costs.
Both were banned from keeping animals for five years (his ban expired September 2022, hers January 2023).

Eastern Daily Press 06/09/2017
Wisbech Standard 10/01/2018

Update November 2021

New address:
Hawthorne Avenue
WISBECH
PE13 3LB

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