A man was arrested yesterday after he punched his neighbour's cat in the head before hurling it into a river after claiming it had been bullying him.
Dougal Thorn admitted killing his neighbour Play Radio UK presenter Sarah Booker's black moggy and throwing its limp body into the River Adur in West Sussex because it "looked pleased" after knocking over a vase of flowers in his living room.
Miss Booker and her musician partner Tom Walker yesterday reported Mr Thorn to police after they had spent a week searching for their beloved cat Chopper.
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He admitted he had killed two-year-old Chopper because the cat had smirked after it crept into his living room and knocked over a vase, had menaced him in his own home and had bullied his landlady's cat Barney.
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