Teenager spared jail

[Jazzy]

A teenager who drank an entire bottle of Jack Daniels before killing a cat has been spared jail.

Lance Cameron Elgar, 19, kicked the defenceless cat three times while wearing steel toe-capped boots, paralysing it before he put it on a fire.

The brutal attack was carried out after the cat scratched him at the Jesus Army Christian Church where he was living in Nether Heyford, Northamptonshire.

Vets who examined the cat, which belonged to the owners of the church, said that it had suffered broken bones, fractures, internal bleeding and a severed spinal cord.

But Elgar was told he would not have to go to jail and was instead handed a 12 week suspended prison sentence.

He admitted causing unnecessary suffering to an animal and was banned from keeping animals for 10 years. He was also ordered to pay £2,353.15 in court costs.

Northampton Magistrates Court heard the cat died after sustaining ‘extreme pain and suffering’.

District Judge Tim Daber told Elgar it was ‘completely incredible’ someone would take their anger out on ‘a defenceless animal’.

He said: ‘Neither arguments, drinking or scratches are any excuse whatsoever. It shows incredible cruelty.

‘It is a very close call but your age, remorse and record for making positive contributions to the community have persuaded me to just keep you out of prison on this occasion.’

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Your thoughts on the decision to keep him out of prison?

 

[+paradox]

i'm wondering why he didn't get charged...

how is that not against the law and animal cruelty?

plus he was drinking underage...

does he have family with-in the justice realm in his area?

this just makes me sick and mad!

but then again it's not america so who knows...

 

[Elvira]

Jail is too good for that asshole.

 

[seasidemike]

Why want he banned from drinking alcohol as well?

 

[Jazzy]

Lance Cameron Elgar, 19, kicked the defenceless cat three times while wearing steel toe-capped boots, paralysing it before he put it on a fire.

Anyone who could do this to a defenceless animal has serious mental issues.

 

[Chilil]

If they aren't going to put him in jail, someone needs to kick him with some steel toe-capped boots. That'll make him think twice before doing it again. Sickens me honestly