PETA Offers £1,000 To Help Find Cruel Yob Who Killed And Gouged Out Eyes Of A Rabbit

For Immediate Release:

5 April 2013

Contact:
Ben Williamson +44 (0) 20 7837 6327, ext 229; [email protected]

Fenton, Staffordshire – PETA is offering a reward of up to £1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who killed and gouged out the eyes of a rabbit in a horrifying attack in Ridley Walk. Thumper’s lifeless and mutilated body was discovered on the morning of Friday, 22 March, and the deliberate and savage act is believed to have occurred in the middle of the night.

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PETA is urging residents to keep a watchful eye on their animal companions and to keep them indoors. Because animals cannot report incidents of abuse against them and can do little to fight back, they are the perfect “practice” victims for violent people.

History shows that past incidents involving cruelty to animals regularly appear in the records of serial rapists and murderers. Young killers Mary Bell, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables as well as serial murderers Ian Huntley, Thomas Hamilton (the Dunblane massacre), Fred West, Dennis Nilsen, Ian Brady and Raoul Moat all started out by deliberately harming animals.

“It is imperative that any community faced with the abuse of animals take measures to find the culprit or culprits and stop the violence”, says PETA spokesperson Ben Williamson. “Animal abusers are a danger to everyone – they take their issues out on whoever is available to them, human or non-human.”

Anyone with information about this case is encouraged to contact the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on 0300 123 8018.

For more information, please visit PETA.org.uk.