Wednesday, 24 September 2014

Pet hating OAP admits poisoning five of his neighbours’ cats using tuna laced with anti-freeze

Pet hating OAP admits poisoning five of his neighbours’ cats using tuna laced with anti-freeze

Man uses anti-freeze to poison five neighbours' cats
Donald Waterworth admitted he had a history of hating pets (Picture: Thomas Temple/Rossparry.co.uk)
A pet hating pensioner has admitted to putting out poisoned tuna after five of his neighbours’ cats were found dead.
Donald Waterworth pleaded guilty to an animal cruelty charge after RSCPA investigators found a plate of tuna laced with anti-freeze in his garden in Leyland, Lancashire.
Mr Waterworth’s neighbours Linsey Bilsborough, 45, and Julie McClumpha, 55, both lost their cats, five in total, in a two week period last October.
Picture shows Lily (top) and Midnight the cats that were killed by callous Donald Waterworth, 79, Leyland, Lancs., after lacing tuna with anti-freeze and feeding it to them. Lily and Midnight were owned by Donald's next door neighbour Linsey Bilsborough 45, from Leyland, Lancs., See Ross Parry copy RPYCAT : A pensioner has admitted placing poisoned TUNA in his garden - after FIVE cats belonging to neighbours were found dead. Donald Waterworth, 79, hid plates of fish laced with anti freeze in the back garden of his home. He was spotted placing the food down days after next door neighbour Linsey Bilsborough, 45, lost four pet cats after they all fell seriously ill within a two-week period last October. Her neighbour, Julie McClumpha, 55, also suffered heartbreak when her eight-year-old cat Treacle died "the most horrific" death in her arms around the same time. Thomas Temple/Rossparry.co.uk
All five cats were found to have anti-freeze in their stomachs (Picture: Thomas Temple/Rossparry.co.uk)
A heartbroken Julie, whose four cats all died, saw Mr Waterworth putting something in his garden around the time of the cats’ deaths, a court heard.
The mother-of-two, who lives next to Mr Waterworth said her cat Tipex ‘suddenly became ill and he wouldn’t let you stroke him, which was very unusual, and he just curled up in a ball in the corner’.
After taking him to the vet she was told he had ingested anti-freeze and would not survive.
She said: ‘There was nothing the vet could do and he was put to sleep. He was only 11-months-old and we were devastated.’
Picture shows Linsey Bilsborough (Left) and Julie McClumpha the owners cats that were killed by cat killer Donald Waterworth, 79, Leyland, Lancs., after lacing tuna with anti-freeze and feeding it to them.See Ross Parry copy RPYCAT : A pensioner has admitted placing poisoned TUNA in his garden - after FIVE cats belonging to neighbours were found dead. Donald Waterworth, 79, hid plates of fish laced with anti freeze in the back garden of his home. He was spotted placing the food down days after next door neighbour Linsey Bilsborough, 45, lost four pet cats after they all fell seriously ill within a two-week period last October. Her neighbour, Julie McClumpha, 55, also suffered heartbreak when her eight-year-old cat Treacle died "the most horrific" death in her arms around the same time. Thomas Temple/Rossparry.co.uk
Linsey (left) and Julie (right) were left heartbroken over their cats’ horrific deaths (Picture: Thomas Temple/Rossparry.co.uk)
‘We loved them so much and we’re still so angry about it. I’ll never understand how someone could do that.’
Jonathan Fail, prosecuting for the RSPCA, told Preston Magistrate’s Court there would have been ‘very significant suffering on behalf of the cats’.
The court ordered Mr Waterworth to pay £1,665.66 in court costs and was fined £125 as well as a £20 victim surcharge.
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