#MostEvil | Gina Marie Robins, born 16/09/1980 of 29 Collaton Road, Torquay TQ2 7HH – microwaved a neighbour’s kitten to death in a vile act of revenge
In 2011 Gina Robins shut a 10-week-old kitten in the microwave oven and switched it on. The kitten’s owner, Robins’ neighbour Sarah Knutton, heard a loud popping sound like an exploding bag of crisps before a ‘horrendous screeching noise’.
Miss Knutton went into the kitchen and found the black and white kitten dead in the microwave.
She said: ‘I was in a state of shock. Gina stared at me. She didn’t say anything. She just stared at me.’
The next day Robins sent Miss Knutton a text which read: ‘Remember the saying “what goes around comes around?” It has started already to bite you in the ****. The cat? Karma.’
Robins had denied a charge of causing unnecessary suffering. She claimed the kitten jumped up onto a worktop and other cats started fighting and shut the kitten in the microwave which then started up.
But prosecutor Iain O’Donnell, for the RSPCA, said it was ‘implausible’ the kitten had crawled into the oven and another cat had knocked the door shut, activating the appliance.
Vet Robert Cameron said the ‘kitten would have suffered prior to death’. He said its claws and ears – where there was no fur – were both reddened and its claws were clenched in fear. A post-mortem examination concluded that the kitten died from microwave radiation and there were ‘no other potential causes of death’.
Robins was found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to the kitten and sent to prison for 168 days.
Magistrates noted her complete lack of remorse as they sentenced her.
Sentencing: 168 days in jail. Banned from keeping animals for 10 years (expired December 2021).
Waste of oxygen deserves nothing less than to be hunted down, tortured slowly and killed. Should be absolutely no place for vermin like this on earth.