A WOMAN savagely “battered” her own dog to death with a saucepan after stumbling home drunk from a party.
Jordanna Wheeler, 29, whacked the bull mastiff so hard the pan was left buckled before she passed out on her sofa.
Cops found the pet dead on its bed in her filthy Swansea flat along with the “severely deformed” saucepan she used in the attack still covered in dog hair.
Swansea Crown Court heard a vet found the dog had suffered significant blunt force trauma to the head.
Prosecutor Dean Pulling said Wheeler later tried to “manipulate” mental health staff into sectioning her once she realised what she had done.
She told a nurse she’d been out partying before she “woke up on the sofa covered in spew”.
And only when she came around did she discover “I had battered him to death”.
The nurse said she showed “no remorse”.
At the hearing Wheeler, now of Loughor, Swansea, admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.
Sarah John, defending, told the court Wheeler had a neglected childhood “due largely to parental alcoholism”.
The lawyer added her that client left school when she was 11 to care for siblings.
Judge Geraint Walters said the public would be “outraged” and blasted her.
Upon sentencing he said: “You are not fit to look after yourself never mind a dog.
“What was the point of it?
“The public do not take kindly to people who neglect pets.
“In this case, this is about as savage an attack on an animal by a person as I have ever heard.
“Prosecution counsel used the word ‘bludgeon’ to describe what you did. That is the right word.”
He spared her jail, handing her a 16-month sentence suspended for 18 months and banning her from keeping animals for ten years.
She also was ordered to complete a rehabilitation course and to abide by a 120-day alcohol abstinent requirement and a three-month nightly curfew.
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