cat women fined

the woman who was caught on security camera dumping a cat into its owners' wheelie bin has been fined £250 after pleading guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to the animal.

Bank worker Mary Bale, from Coventry, became an international hate figure in August after CCTV footage emerged of her stroking the four-year-old tabby before picking it up by the scruff of its neck and dropping it into the bin.

Bale, 45, was last month charged with two offences under the 2006 Animal Welfare Act, for causing unnecessary suffering and for failing to provide the cat with a suitable environment.

Appearing at Coventry magistrates court this morning, she admitted to the first charge. The second charge was dropped.



She has also to pay costs, of £1,171 and banned from keeping or owning animals for the next five years.

Serves her right.

I've just seen this on the news and she lost her job and has had hate mail. I still don't think that's enough. £250 fine is a joke ffs. It makes me feel sick to think she would have gone to bed that night and not gave it a second thought that the cat might die. It could have been so stressed that it had a heart attack or if the bin men came and emptied. it. When I throw rubbish away I don't usually check to see if there is anything in the bin first (I do now though) so anything could have happened and I don't think she's sorry at all.

I can't get youtube up at the moment but if you go on youtube and search this ...... 'Cat In Bin Dumper Mary Bale Apologises and Said It Was A Joke' ....... you'll see her hard face and at the end a little smirk, she isn't interested in saying sorry here so I think she's only sorry cus she's had hate mail and lost her job.

Cow.

dale says she should of got cso and made to work cleaning a cattery every morning for 6 mths

I love your Dale bless him