Hunt for thug in vicious attack on cat

SHOCKING and distressing footage has emerged of a man brutally stalking and picking up a cat before smashing it on the ground and trying to get his dog to attack it.

- LYELL TWEED

Tracy Heatley let her 15-year-old cat, Lola, out of the house as she always does on the evening of December 5, expecting her to come back within minutes due to the bitterly cold temperatures. But around two hours later she received a call saying Lola had been taken to the emergency vets by police with life-threatening injuries.

It was initially thought that the injuries had come from a loose dog attacking Lola, but CCTV footage caught from a neighbour's house showed it to be much more sinister. The video showed a man walking through Laythom Street, Bury, with a dog off its lead, before following Lola into a car park on the corner with Brookshaw Street.