Oh, Just The Sort We Want Breeding!

Presiding magistrate Geoffrey Clemerson said: "I have to say that in the 14 years I have sat on the bench, this is one of the most unpleasant cases of animal cruelty I have heard."

The details make for most unpleasant reading…

Student Kelly Norman said she was walking down Clifton Place in Greenbank in the morning when she saw West with a dog on a lead.

She said she saw West kick the dog and then drag it along the pavement.

Miss Norman added the dog was then picked up by its lead.

She said: "I was quite upset. I did not know what to do. The dog was lifeless. It was not responding at all."

Miss Norman said she challenged West, but he swore at her and told her to go away.

She added she followed him into flats at Seven Trees Court, where he 'slammed the gate in her face'.

Lovely. And she’s to be commended for her bravery.

Vet Susan Bird said she examined the puppy after it was seized by police.

She added the dog had a leg which was so badly fractured it had to be amputated.

The court heard the dog was later found to be blind in one eye, had symptoms of mild concussion and had grazes over its body.

Turns out, animals and strangers on the street aren’t the only targets of this subhuman filth’s inability to deal with the world:

Magistrates jailed West for 12 weeks for animal cruelty and another four weeks for a separate public order offence.

That being…

Will Rose, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said he had threatened a female housing officer and said he would 'burn the place down'.

Just wonderful.

Graham Kinchin, in mitigation for West, said he had a history of psychiatric problems.

Even better.

He added that his partner had just had a baby.

Wait. What?

What must the mother be like? And what must the prospects for the poor child be like?