UK teens jailed for ‘sadistic’ kitten killings in London
Court heard how one of the teens had wanted to kill a person, and researched how to ‘get away with murder’
A UK judge on Monday sentenced two 17-year-old teenagers – a boy and a girl – respectively to one year and nine months in detention for the “sadistic” torture and killing of two kittens.
The boy had also wanted to kill a human and researched how to “get away with murder”, according to the prosecutor at London’s Highbury Corner Youth Court.
Two kittens were found cut open with ropes attached to them in a park in northwest London in May.
Both kittens had pieces of flesh and fur apparently burned off them. Police also found knives, blowtorches and scissors at the scene.
The two teenagers pleaded guilty to possessing a knife and causing unnecessary suffering to the animals. Neither can be named for legal reasons.
I really wanted to murder someone. Every day I was researching how to get away with murder
District judge Hina Rai said the killings were “without doubt the most awful offences against animals I have seen in this court”.