Blackpool man jailed after leaving dogs to starve to death

Two dogs starved to death after they were entombed in a boarded up house in Blackpool.

The door to the bedroom where they lived without food or water for up to three months was wired to a bannister so it could not be opened.

Now their cruel owner, Jason Proctor, has been imprisoned himself for 23 weeks.

When an RSPCA inspector final broke in and found the corpses of Staffordshire bull terriers Buster and Roxy he found teeth and claw marks on the walls - made by the desperate animals.

The 30 year old of Laburnum Street,Blackpool, admitted causing the animals unnecessary suffering.

As well as jail he was also banned from keeping any animal for the next ten years by Blackpool Magistrates.

Jonathon Fail prosecuting for the RSPCA said the dogs were found in a first floor room of a house in the resort's Adelaide Street where Proctor had been staying for a short time.

Proctor returned to the house one day and found contractors boarding the windows and doors up because it was being repossessed.

Proctor was allowed in once to collect some belongings but he left the dogs behind.

They suffered starvation and dehydration.

The dogs corpses were only found when a man was sent in to tidy the place up before it was put on sale.He alerted police and the RSPCA to his dreadful discovery.

The prosecutor said:"The dogs were found one of top of the other.Their bones were clearly visible because they had lost so much weight.One of them had fungus in his mouth and eyes."

"The door had wired to make sure it would not open and the scratch marks showed how desperate they were to get out."

"They had been suffering like this for a minimum of three months."

Steven Townley,defending said that Proctor had been taken by surprise when the house he had been looking after was re -possessed.

"He did ask if he could go back in once and left the dogs.Foolishly he did not contact the authorities."

"The men who boarded up the house were aggressive towards him and the feared for his safety."

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How? How on earth could he seal them up and just leave them? What kind of humanity is he?

Fearing for his safety? Pity he did not fear for the safety of those poor dogs.

I think he should have been banned for keeping animals for life, not just ten years, and his time in prison be without food or water, just as he left his poor dogs.

Story submitted by Malka
on 25-11-2014, 09:16 AM

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