Blackpool cat killer to appeal 12 week jail sentence

An hour after Carl Dyson, 40, of Belmont Avenue, was jailed for 12 weeks at Blackpool Magistrates Court this morning, he returned to the dock and was granted in conditional bail.

The magistrates were told by his lawyer, Gary McAnulty, that he was appealing the Bench’s sentence on the grounds it should have been suspended.

Mr McAnulty said:”My client faces losing his accommodation and a job he is about to start doing maintenance.

"Unless he is bailed pending that appeal he faces doing his full sentence before Preston Crown Court can hear that appeal.”

Dyson admitted to killing the black and white eight-year-old cat, called Paddy, at an address on Salthouse Avenue on Wednesday, October 23 last year.

His lawyer said he found the cat bleeding in his friend's kitchen and decided to 'put it out of its misery'.

Witnesses saw Dyson carry the struggling cat, which was wrapped in a pink towel, outside and put a large concrete slab 'as thick as a laptop' twice over its head.

Magistrate Ed Beaman said: "The cat was trying to escape the blanket and was not so ill as to be accepting of its fate."