Thug who stamped on dog's head banned from keeping animals
A man from Birmingham has been banned from keeping animals for eight years after stamping on his Staffordshire bull terrier.
Karl Daniel Haden, from Erdington, was found guilty of two animal welfare offences at Birmingham Magistrates Court on March 26.
A paramedic, who was with police on an unrelated matter, had witnessed Haden walk into a property on Hunton Road with his dog Hunter.
The 34-year-old aggressively shouted at his dog before stamping on his head at least four times. The dog was left with a wound above his eye after the incident on April 2 last year and was seized by police.
RSPCA Inspector Kate Levesley, who investigated for the animal welfare charity, said: "A vet concluded that Hunter had suffered unnecessarily as the actions of Haden were unnecessarily excessive and violent."
Haden was also sentenced to a 16-week 7pm-7am home curfew, Rehabilitation Activity Requirement (RAR) and a six-month alcohol treatment programme when he appeared before magistrates in Birmingham on March 26.
