A man who "saw red" and killed his partner's dog after it defecated in her house has been jailed and forbidden from owning animals indefinitely.
Christopher Michael Matthews, 39, pleaded guilty to causing blunt force trauma which ultimately killed his partner's Lhasa Apso cross-breed called Sasha at a court appearance on September 10 this year.
Matthews, of Newlyn Close in Bransholme, had confessed in court to picking up and launching Sasha at a sofa.
He claimed to have been having a "bad day" when he went into a frenzy after Sasha had defecated indoors and had been "causing him trouble".
Hull Magistrates' Court felt that the offences were so severe and the distress of Sasha so pronounced that there was no option other than a custodial sentence.
Matthews had not even told his partner about his part in the dog's death until his court appearance.
He was jailed for 18 weeks for his cruel actions, banned from looking after animals for an indefinite period and fined £240 in costs and fines.
A representative of the RSPCA, Philip Brown, stated the questionable handling of Sasha had been voiced by the vet which Matthews and his partner took the deceased animal.
The pair had claimed that the dog had not been deceased when they had set off had sustained an injury in an unspecified accident in the garden of her property.
A post-mortem found Sasha had sadly suffered significant blunt force trauma to the left side of her head and face, bruising to the nose and mouth, bloodshot redness in the whites of her eyes and lacerations to the surface of her liver.
All the injuries led to the suspicion that abuse to the animal had taken place over an extended duration of time.
Solicitor for the defence Robin Smith said in mitigation that Matthews had faced an "agonising decision" in confessing to his crime.
Regardless, Matthews crime was already considered the highest level of culpability in sentencing, meaning the question of if the abuse had taken place for a prolonged period of time became irrelevant.
