The British Justice this Friday sentenced a man to five years and three months in prison for slaughtering nine cats in Brighton.

Some attacks that caused panic among pet owners in this city in southern England.

Steve Bouquet, a security officer 54, was tried for

killing nine cats and cause wounding seven others between October 2018 and July 2019

as well as for illegal possession of a

knife.

During the trial in a court near Brighton, Bouquet pleaded "not guilty" to the judge.

He had previously assured the police that he was "no threat to animals".

The owner of one of the victims, the cat Nancy, explained to the court that he found the animal under his bed with a trail of blood leading to the door.

A witness claimed to have seen Steve Bouquet acting "strangely" at the scene.

According to Sky News, was arrested after the owners of a cat of nine months was attacked realized the presence there of a camera installed by another neighbor whose dog had suffered the same fate a year earlier.

When police examined the images, saw

Steve Bouquet "bending down to pet the cat before pulling something from his backpack and make a sudden jerk to him ,

"

said Detective Inspector Chris Thompson.

The pet escaped, but later died from the injuries.

In a search of the house of the now condemned man, a knife with feline blood and traces of DNA was found on the handle.

The investigation revealed that, from his laptop, according to Sky News, Bouquet had "repeatedly accessed a website related to lost cats in the city, where he paid special attention to a cat that was killed," said Detective Inspector Thompson. .

According to his testimony at the trial, "he had also seen numerous videos about dogs that kill kittens and his devices recovered two photographs of a dead cat in a garden, taken at different times of the day, and believed to have been taken by he".

In handing down the sentence,

Judge Jeremuy Gold called Steve Bouquet's attitude "cruel" and pointed out that he attacked "the heart of family life."

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