Malaysian who killed cat in dryer faces jail in new law’s first conviction. Good to see he’s getting his come uppance…
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian court handed a jail term of 34 months and a fine to a man who killed a cat by stuffing it into the dryer of a launderette, the first such conviction under a new animal welfare law.
In Tuesday’s (Nov 5) judgment, which the court stayed pending appeal, K Ganesh, 42, was ordered to pay a fine of 40,000 ringgit (US$9,700) for his crime, captured in a closed-circuit television clip that went viral on social media last year.
The grainy video showed two of three men putting the cat, which was pregnant, into the dryer at about midnight on Sep 11 last year.
In the video obtained from the laundry facility, one of them can be seen lifting the cat from the floor as the other opened the dryer door.
After they place the cat inside the machine, the men close the door and walk away. They return shortly after to put some coins into the dryer and activate the machine.
The men then watch as the machine whirred with the cat still in it.
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