Lancashire Evening Post [Warning, a bit upsetting for cat-lovers] :
Mum shops cat-swinging son to police
A teenager who was filmed swinging his family cat around by its tail was caught out when his mum shopped him to the police.
Mum-of-four Karen Ridley, 36, of Skeffington Road, Deepdale, Preston, was horrified when she discovered the sickening footage on her son Matthew’s mobile phone.
She threw him out of the family home and reported him to Lancashire Police and also rang the Army to tell them what her would-be soldier son had done.
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The appalling minute-long clip, filmed by the teenager’s friend, shows 13-year-old Belle, a black and white house cat, screeching in pain as the intoxicated teenager swings her by her tail.
Ridley, 19, was sentenced to 250 hours’ unpaid work and ordered to pay £45 costs at Preston Magistrates Court, after pleading guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.
Distraught Mrs Ridley, who has two other cats named Sutty and Tickles, discovered the clip when she began flicking through his phone after she had found it at home.
She said: “I went absolutely berserk when I saw the clip. We have had Belle since she was a kitten.
The nasty little shit. His poor mother, to find out so late that she’s raised a sociopath.
If it’d been one of my kids, being chucked out would be the least of their worries. If you can hurt something helpless and enjoy it you don’t deserve to be around decent human beings, in my opinion.
If this is the kind of recruit the army is accepting then no wonder it’s fucked.
