AN 18-year-old man from East Yorkshire has been jailed for four months after admitting stabbing a dog to death.

Bradley Michael Harris, of South Back Lane, Bridlington, appeared in Beverley Magistrates’ Court via video link from prison last Wednesday.

He pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a black Patterdale terrier type dog called McGregor by stabbing the dog with a knife.

Harris was one of four people who were drunk and causing a disturbance in the communal hallway of a block of flats in Wellington Road in Bridlington, where two of them lived.

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When McGregor’s owners, who lived in the flats, confronted them, their door was kicked in and the dog escaped.

RSPCA inspector Geoff Edmond said: “McGregor was stabbed twice by Harris. Veterinary evidence suggests he was held down when this happened.

“He managed to escape and was found a few minutes later, collapsed in a pool of blood under a table. He died from his injuries in the arms of one of his owners.”