A Malaysian man was sentenced to 34 months in jail for killing a pregnant cat by stuffing it into a laundrette dryer (AFP Photo/Jeff Haynes) |
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) - A Malaysian man who killed a pregnant cat by putting it into a laundrette dryer has been sentenced to 34 months in jail, official media reported, in a case that sparked outrage.
K. Ganesh
was handed the prison term Tuesday after being found guilty of breaking animal
protection laws at the self-service laundry outside Kuala Lumpur in September
last year, official news agency Bernama reported.
He will
remain free on bail for now as he plans to appeal.
The
42-year-old was the second man to be sentenced over the killing after a taxi
driver was jailed for two years for the crime in January.
Malaysians
reacted with fury when CCTV footage went viral showing the cat being stuffed
into the dryer late at night.
Two men
then inserted tokens into the machine to set it running and left. A female
customer later found the animal's carcass and the matter was reported to the
police.
Sentencing
Ganesh, Judge Rasyihah Ghazali said: "I hope this sentence will serve as a
lesson to the accused and the public to not be cruel to animals."
He was also
fined 40,000 ringgit ($9,700), Bernama reported late Tuesday. AFP could not
immediately contact Ganesh's lawyers.
A third
person was earlier detained over the killing but prosecutors dropped the case.
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