THE KITTEN KILLER

Brute tortured pet Woman punched in front of his partner and headbutted

- BY TIM BUGLER

AN ABUSER is facing jail after torturing a kitten to death in front of his terrified partner.

Lewis Aitken, 21, who was in a relationship with the woman, also 21, for two years, began to abuse her when she became a mother, Stirling Sheriff Court was told.

He blackened her eye, headbutted her, and repeatedly punched her in the face and on the body and spat on her.

Mobile phone footage was played in court of her screaming, sobbing and begging for mercy during a four-month campaign of abuse which began in February 2024 and ended in June the same year when she called the police after he killed the kitten.

The court was told the woman was at home in her flat in Alloa at about 1pm on June 17, 2024, when she heard a noise in a cabinet and opened it to find Aitken’s 12-week-old kitten inside.

Aitken, who had been asleep, flew into a rage because she had released it.

He said he had left it in the unit on purpose so it would see him as ‘a saviour”.