Neighbour accused of killing dog

A woman says she has raised £1,600 to fund a private prosecution against a former neighbour she accuses of killing her pet dog.
Mother-of-three Tricia Wales claims a long-running series of disputes with Neville Hill culminated in her five-year-old border terrier Wurzel being killed and dumped on her land by him.
Mr Hill admitted that he hit Wurzel with a garden hoe after it trespassed on to his property but the RSPCA has decided not prosecute him because the dog did not suffer undue pain.
Instead, Mrs Wales, 60, who lives in the village of Yapton, near Arundel, West Sussex, has launched a private prosecution alleging criminal damage against Mr Hill. She called on friends, relatives and villagers to raise enough money to fund the case, which will have its first hearing at Chichester Magistrates' Court on Friday.
Mrs Wales, a freelance secretary, said she and her family were devastated by the death of Wurzel, who had to be put down because of the extent of its injuries. The alleged incident happened in September last year after Mrs Wales visited the shops to buy potatoes for Sunday lunch, leaving Wurzel and her other two dogs in the house.
She said: "Hill said that my dogs got into his garden, that they were circling his hen coop and distressing his animals. There was a horrendous dog fight which culminated in him hitting Wurzel with a blunt instrument."
A post-mortem examination found the dog had sustained a skull fracture as a result of being struck by a blunt object, Mrs Wales said. Mrs Wales accepted she and Mr Hill had past disagreements as neighbours.
Mr Hill said he did strike Wurzel with a garden hoe, that it was not his intention to kill the animal and that he reacted as a result of a series of incidents involving Mrs Wales. He told how Mrs Wales' dogs trespassed on to his land, aggravating and attacking his elderly dog.
He said he placed the dog on Mrs Wales' doorstep because she was not in at the time. He said: "The dog wasn't dead when I put her on the doorstep. It was still breathing and I simply thought she was concussed. If I had thought she was seriously injured then I would have called a vet."
"If I had wanted to kill the dog, I would have used the sharp end of the garden hoe but I didn't. I didn't even aim a blow at the dog. It was just to scare her off my old dog."

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not nice at all

Wonder what the outcome was

Dont know how i feel about this really If i had an elderly dog that was being attacked by three dogs i might of reacted the same way obviously not meaning to do serious damage to the other dog
You just never know how you will react until it happens to you

I do know i couldnt have just left the dog on the doorstep like this guy
If i ever hurt an animal that badly i would have to take it to a vet