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Bristol solicitor Katy Gammon admits leaving dog to starve | Bristol solicitor Katy Gammon admits leaving dog to starve |
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A solicitor has pleaded guilty to cruelty after she left her dog to starve to death in a house in Bristol. | A solicitor has pleaded guilty to cruelty after she left her dog to starve to death in a house in Bristol. |
Katy Gammon, 27, from Lawrence Weston, locked boxer dog Roxy in the kitchen of her house with no food or water and tied the door shut with rope. | Katy Gammon, 27, from Lawrence Weston, locked boxer dog Roxy in the kitchen of her house with no food or water and tied the door shut with rope. |
The body of the dog was only discovered after neighbours called the police. The RSPCA said Roxy had died a slow and painful death over three to six days. | The body of the dog was only discovered after neighbours called the police. The RSPCA said Roxy had died a slow and painful death over three to six days. |
Ms Gammon will be sentenced at Bristol Magistrates' Court on 9 April. | Ms Gammon will be sentenced at Bristol Magistrates' Court on 9 April. |
Gammon had left the five-year-old dog in the house for around ten weeks and when she returned she looked through the letterbox and could not go inside because the smell was so bad. | |
'Scratch way out' | |
During an interview with the RSPCA, Gammon said: "I assumed she was dead. I never went back." | |
Insp Miranda Albinson asked if she had "deliberately locked" her in the kitchen and then "left her for a week to die". | |
Ms Gammon replied: "Yes, basically." | |
The court heard that Roxy had "tried to desperately scratch her way out of the kitchen". | The court heard that Roxy had "tried to desperately scratch her way out of the kitchen". |
A vet said the dog had died slowly and painfully from starvation and dehydration, becoming blind and falling into a coma before dying of organ failure. | |
Speaking after the hearing, Ms Albinson said Gammon had "shown no remorse". | |
Defence solicitor Joanna Lyons said her client was "mortified on every level for all the suffering she caused Roxy". | |
She said Gammon appeared to have "some psychiatric issues" and asked for sentencing to be adjourned while a report was prepared. | |
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