‘Barbaric’ Irishman who killed and cooked dog is sentenced to two years in jail
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‘Barbaric’ Irishman who killed and cooked dog is sentenced to two years in jail

A CO. DOWN man who killed a dog and cooked it has been sentenced to two years in jail.

Dominic Carter O’Connor, 28, was also sentenced to a further two years on licence by the judge, who described his crime as a "particularly disgraceful and heinous offence".

O’Connor had been found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to the collie – a four-year-old named Jess – at a hearing last month.

In December 2016, he obtained the animal through Facebook before strangling it with a lead, cooking it into a stew and serving it to his own dog.

“I cooked it and fed it to the other dog with a few onions and an OXO cube and salt and pepper,” O’Connor told PSNI officers during questioning.

Sentencing O’Connor, the judge described his actions as "barbaric and calculated".

After O’Connor confessed to health professionals about what he had done, a psychiatric nurse contacted the PSNI.

Officers searched his home and found what appeared to be fragments of bone mixed with ash in the fireplace.

They also found a “stringy type of meat” in a pot in the kitchen and a similar pot of stew next to a bowl of water on the floor.

O’Connor said he cooked the dog before feeding it to his own pet.

He burned the rest of the remains before dumping the ashes at Portavogie harbour.

O’Connor has also been banned him from owning another animal for life.