Cat cannabis attacker sentenced

A South Tyneside teenager who stole a cat and forced it to inhale cannabis by trapping it in a bag has been given a suspended sentence.

Mark Kane, 19, was filmed on a mobile phone carrying out the "sadistic attack" on the tabby cat in January. Kane, of St Aidan's Road, South Shields, had earlier admitted causing unnecessary suffering.

Magistrates on South Tyneside were told Kane had stolen the cat from a friend of his girlfriend.



The court was shown a video in which Kane was seen putting a cat in a bag, inhaling some cannabis and then blowing that cannabis into a bag, sealing the bag and then swinging the bag round his head like a lasso.

The cat survived the attack but ran off and has not been found, the court heard.
He was given a three month sentence, suspended for two years, and banned from keeping animals for 10 years. He was also ordered to pay £100 in costs.

You can see the unpleasant video here.