A man has been jailed after he let a German Shepherd puppy starve to death in an excrement-filled cage for up to seven months.
Paul James Brunsden, 25, was sent to prison for 20 weeks and banned from ever keeping an animal again after Dartford Magistrates’ Court heard he ‘effectively tortured’ the dog in one of the worst cases of animal cruelty investigators had ever seen.
RSPCA inspectors found the puppy, named Jack, in a container festering with flies, maggots and strewn with rubbish…