Boiling water was poured on animals

A WOMAN was found to have poured boiling hot water and bleach on seven animals in a horrific case of animal cruelty.

- ELLIE GOSLEY

A sentencing hearing at Llanelli Magistrates' Court heard that the animals would have felt “serious pain” before they died.

On August 20 last year in Cross Hands, Carys Ann Roberts poured boiling water and bleach on a group of seven wild mice living in a wheelie bin, resulting in burns and subsequent death.

Roberts, 28, of Cross Hands Road, Gorslas, pleaded guilty to one offence of causing unnecessary suffering to protected animals under the Animal Welfare Act.

The court heard that she had messaged her work colleagues on a WhatsApp group to say what she was about to do and despite them asking her not to, she still went ahead and killed the mice.

She poured approximately half a bottle of bleach in the wheelie bin before pouring the contents of the kettle which included boiling water on top. After about five minutes Roberts placed the bodies of the rodents into a bin bag and left the bin out for the binman for the next day.

The incident was reported to the police, who later informed the RSPCA.