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Are we tough enough on animal cruelty?England and Wales has the lightest maximum sentence in Europe for animal cruelty offences. Now an MP is hoping to make the law tougher on perpetrators... Anna Turley... has secured a parliamentary debate about the issue later on Friday.* In December Christopher and Adam Hoar were jailed for six weeks for kicking a hedgehog to death * Kieran Milledge was jailed for 21 weeks in November after he swung his Staffordshire bull terrier, Ronnie, against a train's wall and pushed his foot in the dog's face*Jennifer Lampe received a four-month suspended sentence in August after she drunkenly decapitated her two snakes with scissors before swallowing their headsIn Gloucestershire a man was jailed for 16 weeks for microwaving a rabbit to death because he "was angry". Paul Rogers said he had "no remorse whatsoever. Not even a grain of sand on a beach. I would be lying if I said I did."
Redcar pair admit burying dog alive with nail in headSentencing will take place at Teesside Magistrates Court on 1 March.
Two men who buried a dog alive after hammering a nail into its skull have been jailed.