Woman fined for dumping cat in wheelie bin

A British woman who was caught on CCTV dumping a cat in a wheelie bin was fined £250 (€283) today after pleading guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to the animal.

Former bank worker Mary Bale, 45, 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.