More than 20 protestors shouted “shame on you”, “evil woman” and “murderer” as 27-year-old Stacey Lockhurst was driven away in a police car this morning.
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| Faces of evil: Stacey Louise Lockhurst and Paul James Brunsden |
Moments earlier Lockhurst had been given a suspended prison sentence and banned from ever keeping animals again, having previously pleaded guilty to two counts of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
Judge Kelly said: “I have decided this offence deserves custody, but given your particular circumstances, the part you played in this, the fact you have never committed an offence like this and the fact you pleaded guilty at the first opportunity, I have decided to suspend the sentence.”
The black and tan dog’s co-owner Paul Brunsden, aged 25, formerly of Neptune Terrace in Erith, was sentenced to 20 weeks in prison in August when he also admitted the same offences.
Brunsden and Lockhurst, who now lives in a care home in Erith CLAIMS she suffers with pronounced learning disabilities and emotional problems, kept the dog in a squalid cage at Lockhurst’s old home in Forest Road, Erith, where it starved to death in an inch of its own excrement.
When RSPCA inspectors found the cage, it was teeming with flies and maggots and littered with plastic bags and a takeaway food carton. German shepherd Jack’s water bowl was full of excrement, as was his mouth.
The black and tan dog’s co-owner Paul Brunsden, aged 25, formerly of Neptune Terrace in Erith, was sentenced to 20 weeks in prison in August when he also admitted the same offences.
Brunsden and Lockhurst, who now lives in a care home in Erith CLAIMS she suffers with pronounced learning disabilities and emotional problems, kept the dog in a squalid cage at Lockhurst’s old home in Forest Road, Erith, where it starved to death in an inch of its own excrement.
When RSPCA inspectors found the cage, it was teeming with flies and maggots and littered with plastic bags and a takeaway food carton. German shepherd Jack’s water bowl was full of excrement, as was his mouth.
Lifting him out of his container, the RSPCA inspector could clearly feel his spine from the underside of his body and described it as “the thinnest dog she had ever seen”.
In August, Judge Michael Kelly described it as “one of the worst cases of animal cruelty I have ever come across.”
He added: “This dog was effectively tortured and neglected.”
AND YET IT WAS JUDGE MICHAEL KELLY WHO LET THEM WALK RIGHT OUT THE DOOR WITH NOT ONE SINGLE NIGHT SPENT IN JAIL!!
Lockhurst was sentenced to 20 weeks in prison, suspended for a year, and ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work. She was disqualified from keeping any animal for life and ordered to pay £200 costs.
[What makes this case even more disgusting is the fact that Animal Welfare officers visited the home seven months earlier, saw that 4-month-old Jack was not being cared for properly. When they were unable to get this odious woman to surrender Jack to them, they gave her advice on proper care of Jack. She let Jack suffer for more than 200 days before death welcomed him.]
(This is London - Sept 7, 2012)
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