WOMAN BATTERED HER DOG TO DEATH WITH SAUCEPAN BUT AVOIDS JAIL
Update 28/03/2026: A woman who received a suspended prison sentence after being convicted of killing her dog with a saucepan has now been sentenced to jail for not following the court's instructions.Jordanna Wheeler repeatedly violated the curfew associated with her suspended sentence, missed several scheduled appointments, and did not participate in the assistance programs offered by various agencies.
The 28-year-old, now residing at Beili Glas, Loughor, Swansea, admitted to breaching the terms of her suspended sentence during a court appearance via videolink.
She had been scheduled to be sentenced on Monday but arrived late and was detained in custody.
The judge, Walters, activated 12 months of her previously suspended sentence.
Wheeler will serve up to half of this period in prison before being released on licence to complete the rest of her sentence in the community.
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A WOMAN savagely “battered” her own dog to death with a saucepan after stumbling home drunk from a party.
Jordanna Wheeler, 29, whacked the bull mastiff so hard the pan was left buckled before she passed out on her sofa.
Cops found the pet dead on its bed in her filthy Swansea flat along with the “severely deformed” saucepan she used in the attack still covered in dog hair.
Swansea Crown Court heard a vet found the dog had suffered significant blunt force trauma to the head.
Prosecutor Dean Pulling said Wheeler later tried to “manipulate” mental health staff into sectioning her once she realised what she had done.
She told a nurse she’d been out partying before she “woke up on the sofa covered in spew”.
And only when she came around did she discover “I had battered him to death”.
The nurse said she showed “no remorse”.
At the hearing Wheeler, now of Loughor, Swansea, admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
The lawyer added her that client left school when she was 11 to care for siblings.
Judge Geraint Walters said the public would be “outraged” and blasted her.
Upon sentencing he said: “You are not fit to look after yourself never mind a dog.
“What was the point of it?
The prosecution described her attack as savage and likened it to bludgeoning.
The court handed her a 16-month sentence suspended for 18 months and banned her from keeping animals for ten years.
She was also ordered to complete a rehabilitation course and to abide by a 120-day alcohol abstinent requirement and a three-month nightly curfew.
