Convicted of shooting his dog in the head on a Selva farm

The tragic event dates back to March 2018. The defendant, 79 years old, took his dog to a secluded place in the town of Selva with the intention of ending his life. The dog was only one year and ten months old. The man tied the dog to the lower part of a metal grate at one end and at the other, half a metre away, with a slipknot to the neck. He then shot the dog in the head. Days later, someone found the dead animal with a bullet wound in the skull and reported the facts to the Civil Guard, which began an investigation to try to clarify everything that had happened. The investigation led the agents of the Seprona (Nature Protection Service) to the suspect, who was charged by a Court of Inca for a crime of animal abuse.

Yesterday the man was summoned to account in the courts of Via Alemania, in Palma, and acknowledged before the judge his guilt and having executed the dog. He accepted a16 month prison sentence and the prohibition to have animals for the next three and a half years. The man will not go to prison if he does not commit a crime in the next two years and undergoes a training course on animal protection. Initially, the Prosecutor's Office asked for a year and a half of imprisonment for the defendant.