Thug shot his pet bull terrier 10 times, butchered it with a meat cleaver and left it for dead with noose around its neck... but was snared by microchip

This is the thug who shot his own dog 10 times, stabbed it eight times with a meat cleaver, then left it for dead with a noose around his neck. Vets had to put the bull terrier down, but traced owner Andrew Summerfield, 43, from its microchip.

He faces a possible jail term after he was convicted in his absence at Colchester Magistrates Court, Essex, of two offences of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.

The court heard Summerfield shot the dog, called Barney, 10 times with an air rifle and stabbed it eight times with a meat cleaver before attaching a noose and leaving it for dead along the A12.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2158020/Thug-shot-terrier-10-times-butchered-meat-cleaver-tied-noose-neck--animals-microchip-revealed-brutes-identity.html