Two women who tortured and killed a friend’s pet parrot during a lengthy drinking session have been jailed by a judge who described their cruelty as “beyond comprehension”.
A court heard that Tracy Dixon, 47, and Nicola Bradley, 35, sprayed Sparky the female African grey parrot with Mr Muscle oven cleaner, daubed it with gloss paint and tried to feed it to a dog. They later threw it in a tumble dryer that was turned on. Both women blamed the other.
Judge Archer, sitting at Carlisle crown court on Tuesday, jailed them for 25 months each and said Dixon and Bradley had “together, sadistically tortured and essentially killed Sparky. It is frankly beyond comprehension how anyone could treat an animal in this way.”
The court heard the two women had messed around with shaving foam that had gone over the parrot’s cage and covered it with metal polish and furniture polish and also daubed it in gloss paint and hit it with a tea towel. The parrot became unresponsive and unrecognisable, its head hanging limply out of its cage.
A court heard that attempts were made to feed Sparky to Crooks’s dog before the parrot was put into a tumble dryer that was switched on. When the door was opened the parrot was “gasping” its last breath and one of the women wrung its neck.
Credit: theguardian.com
