Gb: 5 years in prison for the Brighton cat serial killer

(ANSA) - LONDON, JUL 30 - A heavy sentence of 5 years of imprisonment in the United Kingdom for Steven Bouquet, a private security officer dubbed by the British media "the Brighton catkiller" for stabbing 16 cats in the seaside town between 2018 and 2019 southern England: killing nine and wounding seven.

    The rigors of the ad hoc law approved in recent years on the island to punish the unmotivated mistreatment of animals have taken against him. The sentence was handed down before the Chichester Crown Court by Judge Jeremy Gold, who explained that he had imposed 3 months in prison on the impassive bald-headed defendant for the unjustified possession of a knife identified as a weapon intended to offend; and the rest of the punishment for the brutalities perpetrated on the animals.

    At the hearing, the testimonies of various owners of the cats targeted by Bouquet were collected: in general pets caught in the gardens or in the vicinity of some houses in Brighton. The judge underlined the "tearfulness" exhibited for no reason by the security guard towards his four-legged victims and the suffering caused to the people "whose families cared about the life" of those cats.

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