Overview

• District Judge Hina Rai sentenced the 17-year-old boy to a 12-month detention and training order and the 17-year-old girl to nine months for causing unnecessary suffering and possession of knives
• The pair pleaded guilty to torturing and killing two kittens that were found mutilated and hung by ropes near Ickenham Road in Ruislip on May 3
• Knives, scissors and a blood-stained blowtorch were recovered at the scene alongside a note on the boy’s phone in which he confessed to fantasies of murder and said he killed cats to curb his urges
• The judge highlighted that the killings involved extensive planning—from sourcing the kittens via online adverts to purchasing the tools used in the attack
• Both defendants received lifetime bans on owning or keeping animals and will remain under training orders aimed at rehabilitation