Hull man jailed for stabbing Staffordshire bull terrier to death
A MAN stabbed to death a pet dog after his mother was given a scare by a similar animal.
Terence Micheal Renton, 31, went looking for a Staffordshire bull terrier after his mother told him one had scared her.
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Renton, of Kingfisher Rise, east Hull, claimed he had also been bitten by a breed of that dog.
Hull Magistrates' Court heard he was unable to find a stray dog and asked people in the area if they had seen one.
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Renton was told a dog of that breed was locked in a nearby garden. He went to the property armed with a knife and stabbed the animal in the neck.
The dog died from a single deep stab wound.
Shocked members of the public called the police and the RSPCA.
Renton has now been jailed for six months after he pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
He also pleaded guilty to possessing an article with a blade.
Magistrates described his conduct as "cruelty of the gravest gravity".
They have banned him from keeping any animal for life.
Renton will not be able to appeal the order for 15 years.
RSPCA inspector Hannah Bryer said: "To inflict any physical harm or violence on any animal is inexcusable but to intentionally go out with a view to harm an animal and cause its death is a cold, calculated and callous act of cruelty.
"I am pleased the court has recognised the serious nature of this type of offending and has also imposed a lifelong disqualification order from keeping animals."
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by young1986
Tuesday, March 12 2013, 12:00PM
“Troy_Rudeface - my thoughts exactly.”
by jenoh
Wednesday, February 13 2013, 3:24AM
“*their”
by jenoh
Wednesday, February 13 2013, 3:22AM
“davecheale - no. It appears that humans are naturally omnivores so meat is very much on the menu. Meat farmers and abattoir workers do there job no more out of greed than arable farmers and carrot packers. This random attack on a random animal has nothing to do with your vegetarian politics.
Before you accuse me of blood-thirstiness, I'm a vegetarian.”
by highviz
Wednesday, February 13 2013, 12:48AM
“hope he gets a dogs life in nick (if you know what i mean)”
by beadyeye
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 8:41PM
“What a pleasant chap. It's a good job a human didn't scare his mum. He is clearly a dangerous person and needs locking up for more than three months.”
by davecheale
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 8:12PM
“why is not no one bothered about slaughter men, they do this everyday, 20 thousand pigs every day in cranswicks, and rising, just so you corpse crunchers can have a bacon sandwich, he get paid for it too, and your paying him, there is no difference, this man has done it out of anger, slaughter men do it for greed from both parties,”
by BroughGurl
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 3:17PM
“Troy-Rudeface has a fair point here janiezx6 in that this dog being locked up securely in a garden probably wasn't likely to bite anyone therefore it does make your comment a little irrelevant (some might say retarded)!”
by jujuu1
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 2:30PM
“Troy-Rudeface- your last paragraph-my thoughts exactly!”
by janiezx6
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 1:20PM
“troy the only retard is you there was no need for a comment like that you saddo”
by David_Nivea
Tuesday, February 12 2013, 12:19PM
“Given that Mr. Renton seems to be of the opinion - one popular in these primitive regions it seems: see numerous cat murdering stories passim - that mere animals are somehow capable of taking responsibilty for their actions, and given that also animals, when acting instinctively against humans, are regularly destroyed, shouldn't Mr. Renton, having consciously & deliberately set out to kill a 'similar' dog, be consigned to a similar fate?
[For the hard of being, this comment is intended to humorously highlight the ludicrous speciesism that is rampant in modern Britain, and the level of human 'intelligence']”