SINGAPORE – In what prosecutors called “one of the worst cases of animal cruelty”, a man vented his frustrations by abusing cats in the Ang Mo Kio area. Besides kicking and suffocating them, Barrie Lin Pengli also killed two cats by throwing them off high floors at HDB blocks. On …

A man killed his pet dog and then buried the animal in a rhubarb patch. David Betley, of Broadway, Worcestershire, killed his 17-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier Pincher on 21 February in what the RSPCA said was an unnecessary and shocking act. Witnesses called the RSPCA and police officers dug up …