Four-month-old kitten’s skull smashed in so badly it looked like car had hit it

A tiny kitten had to be put down after his owner abused him so badly that he eventually smashed his skull in.

Archie Spencer, 19, left Wolfie with injuries similar to those caused in a car crash in the final attack.

The four-month-old kitten had to be put down.

Spencer’s girlfriend Rebecca Guy, 19, kept taking the kitten to the vet to try and help him, claiming the injuries had been caused accidentally.

Spencer has been jailed for the abuse, while Guy has been banned from keeping animals for life.

Wolfie suffered numerous injuries between January 25 and March 28, while Spencer lived at a Wolverhampton flat with his partner.

Rebecca Guy took Wolfie to the vet three times. The first time he had a head injury. Weeks later he had suffered five broken ribs, and on a third occasion on March 28 he had a horrific skull fracture which went from one side of his head to the other.

The final injury was so serious the vet decided the kindest thing was to put the cat to sleep and, believing the injuries had been caused deliberately, called in the RSPCA .

Inspector Kate Parker said: ‘The pair had always denied harming the cat, however in court Spencer took responsibility for the injuries to Wolfie – although we will never know what actually happened.

‘On the third and final occasion the cat was clearly badly injured. The vet took some video showing poor Wolfie who looks barely alive and when she touched him he reacts, which demonstrates he would have felt pain.

‘That is when the decision was made to end his suffering and later an X-ray revealed his horrific skull fracture.

‘Poor Wolfie was only four-months-old and in that short life enjoyed so much suffering and pain – it is horrendous to think what he went through.

‘In the end he was barely alive and breathing in his own blood, it was truly awful.’

‘In over four years as an inspector this case has been one of the most sickening to investigate, and it saddens me that we will never know the full facts on what Spencer inflicted on Wolfie, but I am grateful to the courts for their sentencing.

‘The life time ban given to Spencer will hopefully mean he can never inflict such suffering on another animal.’

Expert witness Vet David Martin concluded that the force that must have been used by Spencer, of Goodwood Drive, Wolverhampton, on the third and
subsequent fatal attack could be likened to that seen on a road traffic collision.

Spencer admitted causing unnecessary suffering to the cat and was jailed for 12 weeks and banned from keeping animals for 10 years.

Guy, of the same address, pleaded guilty to one animal welfare offence of failing to protect the cat from pain and suffering, and was given an eight-week jail term suspended for a year and was banned from keeping animals for life.