UK cat dumper Mary Bale to appear in court on animal cruelty charges

MARY Bale, the British woman caught on CCTV throwing Lola the cat into a garbage can, is to appear in court next month to face two criminal charges of animal cruelty, prosecutors have confirmed.

Bank clerk Bale sparked outrage in August after security footage posted on the internet showed her calmly dropping Lola by the scruff of the neck into a large green bin outside an address in Coventry, central England.

Four-year-old Lola remained trapped there for around 15 hours but was eventually recovered unharmed.

The 45-year-old will appear before Coventry Magistrates Court on October 19 on charges of causing unnecessary suffering to a cat and of not providing the animal with a suitable environment, under the UK's Animal Welfare Act 2006.

The case was taken to court by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), who quizzed Bale over the footage.



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Newspapers from China to Sweden covered the case of the mysterious cat trasher. Bale was put under police protection after being identified as the woman in the video due to numerous death threats.

She later apologised to Lola's owners and said her actions were "completely out of character."

"I certainly did not intend to cause any distress to Lola or her owners. It was a split second misjudgment that has got completely out of control," she said in a statement last month.



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