Overview
- Chester Crown Court jailed Alicia Darcy, 54, for 18 months after guilty pleas to causing unnecessary suffering to an animal and possessing an offensive weapon in a private place.
- She fatally stabbed her son’s dog with a samurai sword as it rested on a sofa at her home in Sandbach, Cheshire, on October 12.
- She phoned Cheshire Police while intoxicated and initially claimed the dog had attacked her before admitting the stabbing.
- Officers found the pet in a sleeping position with the sword embedded in its torso, which a police constable described as "abhorrent."
- The samurai sword was seized for destruction, and a disqualification order bans her from having anything to do with animals.