WOMAN HANDED 10 YEAR ANIMAL BAN CAUGHT HOUSING TWO CATS IN GLASGOW
A WOMAN banned from owning animals for 10 years was caught housing two cats.Helen Bond, 39, was snared with the rescue pets at her home in Glasgow’s Castlemilk on September 25, 2019.
Bond, now of the city's Cardonald, was disqualified owning pets after the order was granted at an English court in 2012.
She pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to breaching the order.
This was the second time that she had committed the crime.
Her lawyer Manus Tolland told the court that she had been in a victim of domestic violence with her former partner.
Mr Tolland added: “The previous partner killed the cat she owned in 2012.
He was sentenced to 14 weeks in custody for it.
At the same time, she and her husband received disqualification orders.
It was stated by the magistrate that Miss Bond had put herself first.
She left the house after being attacked and stabbed.
After leaving the house, her husband then stabbed the cat to death.
She said she was told by a lawyer that as long as she continued to live with him, she would not be allowed to keep cats.
She moved from Yorkshire to get out his way and moved to Glasgow.
Her position is, if she stayed, she would have been the one who was dead and not the cat.
The officers who found the cats said they were in good health.
Sentence was deferred until next month pending background reports by sheriff Peter Grant-Hutchison.
