21
Nov
HMS Belfast Cat Killer Sentence a Disgrace
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Who remembers Kilo the cat, who was cruelly thrown into the sea from his home, the HMS Belfast, to her death? Following months of searching for the killer (or killers), a 16-year-old girl has now been sentenced at the Camberwell youth court in South East London. Which you’d think we’d be happy with. But the girl – who allegedly smirked at the sentencing – has got off pretty scot-free with a minimal punishment of a supervision order and writing a letter of apology to the crew of HMS Belfast. “Yeah, err, sorry for drowning your cat.”
And we’re not to the only ones think this sentencing is lackadaisical. The Sun went off on a bit of a rant about how the judge’s attitude - implying that it was just a cat so it doesn’t matter – is part of the reason situations like the death of Baby P arise. Looking at cruelty to animals as different to cruelty to humans is a recipe for disaster. As Suzanne Barnard of the PETA Foundation pointed out in her letter to Judge Green, “International experts in mental health and criminology consider the callous disregard for life and desensitisation to suffering evidenced by all forms of cruelty to animals to be a red flag for future violence.”
The PETA Foundation is calling on Judge Green, and all judges faced with cases such as this, impose a much stricter sentencing, so that today’s animal killers do not become tomorrow’s serial killers.
Rest in peace, little Kilo.






That excuse for a human being is clearly mentally unstable, and requires far more than a pathetic supervision order.