Man accused once more of killing cat; already below lifetime animal ban

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Almost a yr in the past, a troubled and troubling Matthew James Drummond was sentenced to serve time on weekends for killing two cats — now he’s again in court docket on prices of animal cruelty once more after allegedly luring away a cat later discovered useless.

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Court docket paperwork present the 29-year-old is charged with stealing a cat on or about June 11, and inflicting pointless ache to the cat by killing it on or about the identical date. Additional, it’s alleged he breached a number of probation orders, and a court docket order prohibiting him from being in charge of an animal.

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In accordance with a information launch issued by Regina police, he made a primary look in Regina Provincial Court docket on Wednesday.

The Regina Police Service obtained what the information launch described as “an uncommon report” of a stolen gray and white male cat on June 13. When the proprietor was unable to seek out her pet on June 11, she checked her residence video surveillance system and noticed a stranger luring the cat and taking him from her yard within the 2300 block of McAra Road.

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On June 14 the cat was discovered useless, in a discipline, within the northwest a part of town. A microchip verified it was the identical cat that had been lured from its McAra Road residence.

“A necropsy report concluded the cat’s accidents had been extreme and never unintentional,” based on Regina police. The investigation broadened and uncovered proof suggesting there’d been an try and steal the identical cat a day earlier, on June 10, by the identical suspect.

Drummond was arrested on Aug. 23, 2022. In accordance with police, he was the already the topic of two probation orders, with a number of circumstances.

In accordance with earlier reporting by the Regina Chief-Publish, Drummond, described as a person with vital psychological well being issues, was sentenced in July 2021 to an intermittent jail sentence (served on weekends) on two counts of animal cruelty. He admitted killed two cats whereas below the affect of medication. The sentence was six months, however lowered to about 90 days after credit score was given for time spent below home arrest on and remand.

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He was additionally topic to a lifetime prohibition from possessing animals.

On the time of that sentencing, Decide Anna Crugnale-Reid had expressed hope that an intermittently served jail sentence would permit him to proceed working at coping with the psychological well being and addictions points that fuelled his offending.

Underneath the phrases of a two-year probation interval for the animal cruelty prices, plus  a concurrent one-year suspended sentence for a drug-related breach, he was to comply with a curfew, preserve employment or schooling, abstain from alcohol and medicines and comply with the instructions of medical docs or psychological well being professionals.

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When his earlier prices had been earlier than the courts, Drummond’s defence lawyer informed the decide there was no query her consumer’s actions had been “horrific,” however he had been in a drug “stupor,” on the time and affected by vital psychological well being and habit points.

“Matthew is a special individual, and he’s extraordinarily remorseful for his actions,” his lawyer informed the court docket throughout sentencing submissions in early 2021.

He’s scheduled to look once more on the latest prices later this month.

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