The case towards a girl accused of stabbing and reducing a hamster has been despatched to crown court docket for trial.
Emma Suzanne Parker, of Belvoir Gardens, Nice Gonerby, is accused of inflicting pointless struggling to a protected animal, particularly a white hamster referred to as Mr Nibbles, by stabbing, hitting and reducing the animal with a knife between Might 1, 2022, and Might 31, 2022 within the neighborhood of her residence.
The case was heard at Boston Magistrates’ Court docket this week and can subsequent be heard at Lincoln Crown Court docket.
Miss Parker has been given unconditional bail till the following court docket date.
A spokesperson for the magistrates’ court docket mentioned two canine from the property got as much as the RSPCA underneath part 20 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 “with an order for his or her disposal in any other case than by the use of sale”.