A pensioner has admitted to putting out poisoned tuna after five of his neighbours’ cats were found dead. Donald Waterworth pleaded guilty to an animal cruelty charge after RSCPA investigators found a plate of tuna laced with anti-freeze in his garden in Leyland, Lancashire.
Mr Waterworth’s neighbours Linsey Bilsborough, 45, and Julie McClumpha, 55, both lost their cats, five in total, in a two week period last October.
Jonathan Fail, prosecuting for the RSPCA, told Preston Magistrate’s Court there would have been ‘very significant suffering on behalf of the cats’.
The court ordered Mr Waterworth to pay £1,665.66 in court costs and was fined £125 as well as a £20 victim surcharge.
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