A trainee solicitor was jailed today for leaving her dog to starve to death, locked in a kitchen, while she went away.
Katy Gammon failed to visit boxer Roxy while staying with her mother close by – trapping the animal without food and water.
Her pet lay undiscovered for ten weeks until a neighbour saw swarming flies through the kitchen window and called police.
When RSPCA officers were called to the Bristol address on November 3 last year, the dog’s body was so decomposed they needed a shovel to scrape it up.
‘On arriving at the address, officers said they felt physically sick,’ said… Read the full story