Overview
- Jamila Michaela Diane Fletcher-Oates, 42, pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to three dogs under the Animal Welfare Act at Newport Magistrates’ Court.
- She received a 20-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months, was ordered to pay £700 in costs and a £154 victim surcharge, and was banned for life from keeping animals.
- RSPCA Inspector Simon Evans found the bodies of French Bulldogs Precious, Destiny and Diamond at her Bettws, Newport property, with two in a travel cage and one wrapped in bags.
- A vet described all three carcasses as “mummified” and determined that two died from dehydration and the third died shortly after from organ failure.
- Fletcher-Oates told investigators she failed to attend the dogs for six days following her wife’s death in February 2024 and expressed remorse, as RSPCA Cymru urged those struggling to seek help.