Man who killed cat fined $20,000

MAGISTRATE Fabayo Azore, on Friday, ordered Raymond Waldron called “Tongue Man” to pay a fine of $20,000, for killing a tom cat.

Waldron of Lancaster Village, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, appeared before the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court for causing injury to an animal.

He admitted that during the month of November 2021, at Lancaster Village, he unlawfully and maliciously killed the cat.

Police Corporal David Goodridge told the court that on November 19, animal rights activist Syeada Manbodh of the Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA) went to the Mahaica Police Station and made a report that an unknown individual sent her a message on Facebook of a photograph which showed a cat hanging on a metal gate. The individual also provided the name and address of Waldron.

Based on the report, police went to Waldron’s home and arrested him. Under caution, he said, “I chop the cat cause he kill nuff a me chicken, me didn’t intend to kill it.

Magistrate Azore after listening to the facts ordered Waldron to pay a fine of $20,000 or serve a default sentence of two weeks imprisonment.

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