I am so proud to come from Torquay.
 

A Devon woman who killed a 10-week-old kitten in a microwave has been jailed for 168 days.

Gina Robins, 31, of Salisbury Avenue, Torquay, was found guilty earlier of causing the animal unnecessary suffering.

Robins had claimed the kitten had been shut in the microwave oven by other cats.

Torquay magistrates heard Robins had been angry with the cat's owner, her friend Sarah Knutton.

The court was told Ms Knutton had reported a former boyfriend of Robins to police over a separate matter before the incident in February.

Robins had asked to use Ms Knutton's microwave to heat some baby food for her 18-month-old son.

But instead she shut the kitten in the oven and turned it on.

Ms Knutton was sitting in her living room and heard a "loud popping noise" and then a "horrendous screeching".

Ms Knutton said Robins did not shed a tear and just "stared at me and didn't say anything about the incident".

Robins told the court some of Ms Knutton's cats had jumped on to a work surface in the kitchen.

She said the kitten must have walked into the microwave oven and some of the other cats started fighting and shut the oven door, which automatically started up the device.

Liz Clyne, chairwoman of the bench, told the defendant: "We have seen little remorse for the death of the kitten or the trauma caused to your former friend Miss Knutton."

Robins showed no emotion as she was led away to start her sentence by two dock officers.

Robins was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.

Ms Knutton said after the case: "What sort of person does something so cold and calculating?

"I did not expect her to go to jail for it. I am just glad it is now all over."

sick bitch :bored:

It's quite worrying that someone could kill a defenseless creature in such a brutal way and show no remorse, I hope she gets looked over by some Psychiatrists or something because something must be very wrong with her.

:sad:

That 8th line is horrendous :bored:

There was a similar kitten in mwave story last week also:- house broken into, nothing worth stealing, so they put the kitten/cat in the mwave and cooked it to death.

Sick depraved human beings. Completely sick in the head.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...th-taking.html
Burglars killed a homeowner’s kitten in a microwave when they could not find anything worth stealing.
The body of the ten-week-old kitten was found hours after the owner reported the break-in.

Heard about this earlier, horrible story

Seriously?

that line did make me laugh a bit... but more out of incredulity than finding it funny

Sick bitch

Awful imagery :///

They should make a large microwave and shove the sick bitch in.

She needs her face microwaving

What a vile woman, how anybody can do that is beyond me. :mad:

Not a long enough sentence. These crimes are beyond disgusting and sentences need to be made longer and the convicted person checked out more, this is often how murderers start out and it's quite scary. Just utterly vile.

I really don't understand how she isn't at least banned from owning animals for life

This is ****ing vile, and I actually feel a little sick after reading that. Especially the popping part :/

This story is exactly why i will never have children, and i think every human being on the planet should be sterilized.

This should be the last generation of Humans. Humans should go extinct for the sake of the world. If you truly love nature and our planet, than we should go extinct.

:bawling:

You can see exactly how animal activists get the fire in their belly's

:bored: Such a horrible women, she deserves to be jailed just for the sickening way she did it.

Made me sad that.. :(

I hope she gets shoved in an oven & dies

This female has some serious Karma heading her way. What kind of person does something like that? She's lucky she was able to walk into court. If it had been my cat, she'd be having every lunch for the rest of her miserable life through a tube.

Disgusting. She should've had a bigger punishment than what she got.

I feel sick after reading this, evil bitch.

What you do in life should come back to you a hundred times over, I would personally burn her alive in a huge pit.

I'm the other way around, I found the opening quite funny until it got to that line

She should be thrown to the kittens great uncle Larry the Tiger

At the very least......and the sentence should be a lot lonnnnnger!

Mind u, I HEAR that many prisoners are animal lovers. So lets hope she gets 168 days of SHEER HELL.