Jailed For 18Months For Bashing 9 Puppies To Death

[labadore]

I hope this scumbag will come to the attention of dog loving inmates who hopefully will deal out their own brand of justice :D

Scumbag jailed for 18months for bashing puppies to death

Brutal crime: Ice killer Nathan Thompson jailed for 18 months for bashing nine puppies to death at Kurri Kurri

Neil Keene

The Daily Telegraph

May 04, 2015 3:07PM

Nathan Thompson arrives at Newcastle Court for sentencing. Picture by Peter Lorimer

A MAN who bashed to death nine puppies with a brick has been jailed for at least 12 months.

Nathan Thompson, 25, previously pleaded guilty to bashing the dogs with a brick in bushland near Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Valley in March.

He was sentenced today to 18 months jail with a non-parole period of 12 months. Thompson told police he was aware that he could simply surrender the puppies to the RSPCA, but chose to kill them himself because he didn’t have enough fuel in his car to make it to the local shelter.

Protesters celebrate the announcement that Nathan Thompson, 25, who killed nine puppies in Kurri Kurr, has received a prison sentence at Newcastle Court.

A witness who reported the killings described the scene as a “massacre” and said he had seen Thompson beating the animals to death with a brick.

Thompson’s LegalAid solicitor, Rob Hussey, said his client was under the influence of methamphetamine, otherwise known as ice, when the killings took place, and hadn’t slept for three days prior.

He asked that rehabilitation rather than full-time jail be considered, submitting that the way Thompson had killed the puppies was a“relatively painless exercise” and did not involve drawn-out torture.

The girlfriend and mother of Nathan Thompson are greeted by protesters as they leave Newcastle Court.

But police prosecutor Jamie Palmer pushed for a jail term, citing the fact Thompson had killed several puppies before being seen by the witness, then went to another location and continued bashing the rest of the litter.

Thompson’s charges carried a maximum five-year jail term.

Magistrate Robert Stone said he was “firmly” of the opinion that only a sentence of full-time custody was appropriate, however he was obliged to award Thompson a 25 per cent discount due to his early guilty plea.

“I am of the opinion that the offences ... fall above the half-way mark in objective seriousness,” he said.

Mr Stone said the evidence showed that Thompson “had an understanding that his conduct was wrong in the extreme”.

Terrier Ruby joins protest Protester Kimberley Veldman outside court.

He was also assessed as having a medium to high risk of reoffending.

Mr Stone did not accept the assertion that Thompson was under the influence of ice at the time of the killings.

“In any case, drug addiction is not an excuse,” he said. He added that Thompson’s actions were “callous, insensitive and heartless”.

“It is likely the community as a whole would find the defendant’s actions deplorable and distressing.”

Post-mortem examinations showed the pups killed in the second beatings actually suffered greater head trauma than those in the first.

“A person would have to be deaf and blind to firstly not hear the puppies yelping and in distress and secondly to see these puppies are floundering around ... and dying,” Sgt Palmer said.

RSPCA officers concluded after examining the dead pups that they would have suffered “excruciating pain and fear” prior to their deaths.

Sgt Palmer submitted that due to the brutality of the crime, the “only appropriate sentence” was a full-time jail term.

Wearing a black shirt and dark pants, Thompson sat quietly in the dock throughout proceedings, bowing his head while gruesome details of the killings were read aloud in court.

Security inside and outside the Newcastle court today was tightened for the sentencing, with fears protesters outside the building could disrupt proceedings.

About 10 protesters and their dogs waved placards prior to the sentencing, calling for tougher animal cruelty penalties and an end to so-called puppy farms.

“We want to make people realise that this is not acceptable,” protest spokeswoman Kimberley Veldman said.

[Loving my Oldies]

A mere poke in the ribs. Naughty boy, smack smack.

Disgusting :mad

[Pjrt]

I hope he has time to reflect on what he has done while in jail.

However, wishing jail brand justice on anyone is just perpetuating violence and will not solve anything for anyone. Advocating human to human cruelty is just not cool, in any setting. IMHO.....