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Prison for spin wash cat killer

Holly Thacker (Picture courtesy of Evening News, Norwich)

Thacker has mental health problems, the court heard

A mother-of-three who killed the family's cat by deliberately putting

it in a washing machine has been jailed.

 

Fluffy the cat took up to 10 minutes to die after 34-year-old Holly

Thacker put the animal in the machine at her home in Hellesdon,

Norwich, a court heard.

 

Vets told the court that Fluffy was gripping to the washer's metal

drum so tightly its claws broke off as it spun round. Eventually the

cat drowned.

 

Thacker, who denied cruelty, was jailed for six weeks by Norwich

magistrates.

 

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In the seven years I have been with the RSPCA I have never come across

anything as horrendous

RSPCA inspector Rob Melloy

 

Magistrates heard that Thacker had told her ex-husband, Simon, she had

put the cat in the washing machine because it had scratched her.

 

She allegedly bragged: " I put it on boil wash as well. " She then

showed Mr Thacker the cat's body in a plastic bag.

 

A report from a veterinary surgeon said the black and white cat would

have struggled because its claws were frayed and broken.

 

Campaigners against animal cruelty

Protesters called for stricter laws to protect animals

 

Death would have been a " slow and terrifying process " taking between

five and 10 minutes, he said.

 

The court heard Thacker, who has a baby and two daughters aged six and

16, had mental health problems and was on anti-depressants.

 

Ms Thacker has received hate mail since the story was reported in the

media, magistrates were told.

 

RSPCA inspector Rob Melloy said: " In the seven years I have been with

the RSPCA I have never come across anything as horrendous. "

 

Campaigners protesting against cruelty to animals gathered outside the

court waving banners.

 

Anne Nathan, of East Anglian Animal Rights Coalition, said stricter

laws and tougher jail sentences were needed to protect animals.=20