SCCARFS' Tales of TAILS

Hello Everyone..

Woe betide us Malaysian animal lovers..

I received this from Paw Pledge, an animal rescue group in Singapore..

The following pictures contain graphic content of outrageous cruelty unleashed towards the innocent felines in the island of Singapore..

Please do not read any further if you cannot handle gory and bloody pictures..

Singapore should have just done us a great favour by chucking the guy into the sea instead of deporting him back to Malaysia..

Sigh..

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Aug 25, 2006
Eight weeks’ jail for cat torturer
SPCA to appeal to AG Chambers for stiffer sentence, says penalty sends wrong signal By Kushwant Singh

CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Wong tortured the cat until it could not be revived, then bashed its body against a wall. Photo by Wong Kwai Chow.

AN air con technician pleaded guilty in the Community Court to torturing a cat and was jailed for eight weeks yesterday.

Malaysian Wong Geng Thong, 28, had befriended the cat after having dinner at a Haig Road coffee shop on July 31.

He fed it some cat food he had in his van and played with it. But when it scratched his leg, he became furious and put it in his van before driving off.

He reached the multi-storey carpark at Block 93A Jalan Dua, off Old Airport Road, at about 1.40am and parked in a deserted corner. He let the cat out but grew angry when it started running around.

He tied a wire noose around its neck and lifted the wire, hanging the cat by the neck. Every time the cat lost consciousness, Wong would revive it by massaging its chest.

He repeated his cruel game until the cat could not be revived.

Removing the wire noose, he grabbed the cat by the neck and bashed its body against the wall several times. He threw it on the floor and kept kicking it before driving off.

Wong did not realise all this had been captured on a spy camera in the carpark.

After cleaners found the grisly remains of 10 cats in the neighbourhood over the past five months, animal lovers started weekend patrols and raised funds to buy video cameras.

They then convinced the town council to hook up six miniature cameras to zoom in on areas in the carpark where several of the mangled bodies were found.

Mr Ishak Puteh, 42, a cleaner, called one of the animal lovers when he found the dead cat on Aug 1 at about 9.30am.

He alerted Miss Sandy Lim, who spotted a blue-and-white van in the video footage of a man swinging a cat from a lasso-like rope tied to its neck.

The education consultant, who is her 40s, scoured the neighbourhood, found the van and tailed the man to his workplace in Eunos, where he was later arrested by the police.

Miss Lim and two other cat lovers, who were in court yesterday, said they had expected a stiffer sentence.

She said: ‘The punishment did not take into account the full severity of the crime as about 10 cats have been killed.’

Added graphic designer Fiona Yuen, 32: ‘We’ve no doubts he is a serial cat killer.’

In passing sentence, District Judge Bala Reddy stressed the seriousness of the offence. He also noted that the psychiatrist who examined Wong was concerned he might abuse people too.

Wong could have been jailed up to a year and fined up to $10,000.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is upset with the sentence, and will be submitting an appeal to the Attorney-General’s Chambers.

Said the executive officer of the SPCA, Miss Deirdre Moss: ‘With due respect to the courts, the SPCA thinks the punishment does not fit the crime, and may be sending out the wrong signal that such brutality is tolerated in society.”

khush@sph.com.sg

This is the man.. that has been identified and charged in court as a feline murderer..

The blood stains of his victims that was left on the wall..

A bloody paw print..

The murder device..

One of his tortured victims..

News on this from other sources..

Singapore – A Malaysian technician was jailed for eight weeks after pleading guilty to torturing a cat to death by repeatedly hanging it from a wire and bashing its body against a wall, news reports said on Friday.

The sentence angered cat lovers who expected a stiffer ruling. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) said it will submit an appeal to the attorney-general’s chamber.

The Community Court heard how Wong Geng Thong, 28, fed the cat some food he had in his van, but became furious when it scratched his leg, The Straits Times said.

On arriving at a multi-storey carpark, he tied a wire noose around the animal’s neck and lifted the wire high enough to hang the cat.

Every time the cat lost consciousnesses, Wong revived it by massaging its chest and repeating ‘his cruel game,’ according to the newspaper report.

When the animal could not be revived, he bashed the cat’s body against the wall several times and kicked it several times before driving away.

The saga of torture on August 1 was captured by a camera in the carpark. Animal lovers had raised funds to buy video cameras after the grisly remains of 10 cats had been found in the neighbourhood.

‘The punishment did not take into account the full severity of the crime,’ cat lover Sandy Lim was quoted as saying after the ruling on Thursday. She cited the deaths of the other nine cats believed to have been killed by the air-conditioning technician.

District Judge Bala Reddy stressed the seriousness of the offence. He noted that the psychiatrist who examined Wong was concerned that he might abuse people.

‘The SPCA thinks the punishment does not fit the crime, and may be sending out the wrong signal that such brutality is tolerated in society,’ said executive director Deidre Moss.

© 2006 dpa – Deutsche Presse-Agentur