SETH JACOBSON: ‘Animal abusers will face prison sentences of up to five years under a new bill being introduced on Wednesday by environment secretary Michael Gove. The Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill will increase the maximum jail time for offenders from six months and will cover incidents of cruelty such as dog fighting, abuse of puppies and kittens, or gross neglect of farm animals. Mr Gove said the bill will give the UK the strongest possible sanctions in Europe…
Cases of unimaginable cruelty, including dogs being trained to attack and torture other animals, have come before courts in recent years and judges have been unable to hand down long sentences as they were not on the statute book… The country’s largest animal charity, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), receives a call to its 24-hour hotline every 27 seconds – adding up to more than a million calls a year’. SOURCE…
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