A Michael Broad Blog
NEWS AND COMMENT-UK: This is a news item which has been circulating in the UK for a while and it is developing hence this report. I’m told that there are now 84 cases of domestic cats being shaved illegally. I’m referring to indoor/outdoor cats who are perhaps outdoors at night and somebody, a criminal …
I’m referring to the UK but this argument may well apply to many other countries. Depending on the circumstances, in the UK, it is better for the prosecuting authorities to charge a person with criminal damage and not animal cruelty if that person or persons have been charged with serious animal cruelty offences. The …
Gary Samuel and his assistant/lover Rochelle McEwan, together, allowed eight cats and 24 dogs to starve in a dark dungeon underneath their veterinary clinic. When the police entered the establishment Samuel was sitting on a bed with a laptop on his knees. He was wearing headphones. He pointed to the trap door under a …
This has all the hallmarks of a person or persons wishing to lure free-roaming cats into the middle of the road with the intention of causing the cats to be run over by a vehicle.
30th Sept. 2017: The UK government announced that animal abusers could be sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison for the most serious forms of animal abuse. The plan was unveiled by the Environment Secretary Michael Gove. They’ve been thinking about this for a while. It is believed that the current law …
This caught my eye because I believe it is unusual for a person to be given a lifetime ban from keeping animals. Normally sentences handed down by judges in criminal trials concerning animal abuse are relatively light or at least they are to animal advocates. The woman’s name is Catherine Allsagar. She is 37 …
As an animal advocate I have always believed that animal abusers are insufficiently punished when convicted of a crime. It isn’t just that the standard prison sentences are too short, it is also that many animal abusers are not sent to prison at all, or perhaps they are fined or simply not prosecuted at …
Someone else called Franky Mills ‘scum’ but they are right. He is that. Worse than that actually. He has seriously hurt cats and the lives of the families with whom the cats lived. The cats he attacked are family members. We know that. Update the next day — I have read that Franky Mills …
