A man who tore the head off a kitten in front of his family in New Zealand has been sentenced to two years and four months in prison. David Hamuera Snook has also been banned from owning or exercising animals for five years.
The Pukekohe District Court heard how Snook went to his former partner's house drunk, in November, where an argument happened.
Snook then sat at the dining table, took the family kitten in his arms, and while laughing, twisted its head off.
His former partner and her children watched Snook kill the kitten before its headless body ran across the floor, according to the police summary of facts.
Snook later told police that the kitten had been run over, however, in her sentencing Judge Sharon McAuslan said that was a lie.
She described the killing of the kitten as "callous, brutal and cruel". "The kitten had one life and you took it", Judge McAuslan said.
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