Eimear Rabbitt

And I think the husband admitted that on adult caution that he had stolen the cat with the woman.

Bernie Connolly refused to admit that.

So as well as the animal cruelty charge, that was also taken into account for her.

So basically they were convicted of cruelty to an animal.

And the judge, I don't know if they were unlucky with the judge.

The judge said to himself, you know, you've come across an animal lover judge here.

So and talked about the cruelness of it.

And, you know, because their defense, the couple's defense put up a really staunch defense about how they were driven to, you know, madness.

They did something really silly, but that they were having loads of issues.

And the judge just said, you know, they're going to be trapped.

And the judge jailed them for three months.

And I'd imagine, you know, that maybe other judges wouldn't have jailed them because they

The defense kept talking about, you know, their clean record, how they were, you know, good members of the community, had never done anything like this before.

But the judge just said, no, this is an animal that, you know, has been treated in this way.

I was just going to say, sorry that they've appealed it now.

So we'll see.

But I for one think that they should serve in jail time for that.

So we'll see.

Yeah, the message in particular is really... So this woman, she's a 62-year-old as well, so she should really know better.

Patricia Quinn is her name.