How do I feel about this? If you want a true and honest answer, I'm not ashamed to admit it makes me want to cry

I ABHOR cruelty to animals in same way I do I abhor child abuse - in both situations the victim is powerless to defend and in many cases (with children I mean) unable to tell anyone or stop what is happening.

I would have qualms what-so-ever about taking an iron bar to this lads head till he lies bleeding and crying in the bushes, and then continue to kick him untill he dies - and I am not a voilent person.

I think the lad is scum, pure and simple, and class him in the same league as child abusers and rapists.

And anyone who harks on about his "deranged mental state" - bollocks. Who's to say he isn't using that as an excuse to do whatever the fuck he wants to do? My friends dad was killed also, but he doesn't go around kicking the life out of innocent, defencless animals does he? No... This kid is just typical product of the shit, reckless and irresponsible society we live in and something needs to change....

And his sentence? 160days in a young offenders? Great, he'll be out in 2 months. And banned from owning a dog for life? Well you don't need to own a dog to kick the shit out of do you? I don't own a footbal but I can still kick one when I walk past one can't I?