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The RSPCA is attracting Londoners for info after the dismembered head of a cat was positioned in a kids’s play area.
A team member at Homerton Grove Adventure Playground was opening the Hackney park for the afternoon on Monday, April 24, when she found the head of a black and white cat positioned at the foot of a popular play device.
Labelling the event a “distinctively troubling circumstance”, the RSPCA thinks this was an intentional act however cannot obtain CCTV video footage due to an absence of cams at the scene.
Michael Harrington, an RSPCA animal rescue officer, said: “The head was extremely thoroughly positioned at the bottom of a kids’s play device and left in a manner that it would be quickly discovered. We have actually been notified that this specific piece of device is among the most utilized and popular things in the play area.
“This should have been a stunning discovery for the member of staff who came across it, however we are exceptionally grateful that it was not discovered by a little kid who might have been deeply traumatised.”
The head was found near the primary entryway to the play area on Wardle Street at the time of its opening on the afternoon of April 24.
The RSPCA think the wrongdoer positioned it there in between 6pm on April 23 and 3.30pm on April 24.
Anyone with info is advised to get in touch with the animal charity’s appeals line in self-confidence on 0300 123 8018.
“This is an entirely unimaginable act and we quite hope somebody will have seen or heard something that can help us with our examination,” Michael included. “There is a uniquely troubling circumstance and we are eager to get to the bottom of what occurred here.”
