Dog owner jailed for throwing pet at windscreen

Jamie Cook was also ordered to pay £95 in compensation for causing criminal damage

A man who threw his dog at the windscreen of a parked car has been jailed for animal cruelty offences.

Jamie Cook, from Kidderminster, was sentenced to 16 weeks in jail and banned from owning a dog for 10 years.

The 27-year-old pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to two counts of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal, as well as one count of assaulting an emergency worker and one of causing criminal damage.

He was sentenced at Kidderminster Magistrates' Court on Monday.

West Mercia Police said a member of the public had reported Cook to officers for kicking and punching his dog, in an incident on New Road in Kidderminster on 31 July.

The force added that another witness saw Cook pick up the dog and throw it on to the windscreen of a parked car on Long Acre.

'Particularly cruel attack'

"This was a particularly cruel attack on what was the owner's own dog," PC Callum Archer said.

"Fortunately, the dog came through the ordeal physically unscathed and has now been rehomed."

Cook, of Hurcott Road, received the 16-week jail sentence for the two animal cruelty charges.

He was also sentenced to two weeks in jail for assaulting an emergency worker and ordered to pay £95 in compensation for causing criminal damage.

He will serve his jail sentences concurrently and is expected to serve eight of the 16 weeks on licence, meaning that he will be released but with certain conditions.

The 10-year ban on owning dogs also contains clauses that bar Cook from keeping or transporting the animals.