Man jailed for torturing puppy

Gardaí arrived in the kitchen of a house to find a man covered in blood with a knife and a German shepherd pup stabbed to death at his feet.

Shane Power, aged 25, was jailed for five months yesterday on a charge of torturing the animal, a charge that carried a maximum sentence of six months at district court level. He had pleaded guilty.

Insp John Deasy said Power, of no fixed address, with previous addresses at Barrack St, Cappoquin, Co Waterford, and Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary, stabbed the dog a number of times after something went wrong in the house where he was staying with his sister and the woman who owned the house at Willow Bank View, Fairhill, Cork.