27th April 2023

A BRADFORD district woman left her neighbour’s dead cat dangling from a tree after it was caught in a snare on her land.

June Kershaw, 77, of Harbour Lodge Farm, Haworth, was convicted at court of causing unnecessary suffering to two cats who died in snares on her land.

The cats, Marley and Frankie, belonged to her neighbour.

At Bradford and Keighley Magistrates’ Court, Mrs Kershaw admitted she did not like her neighbour who had an injunction against her in 2017.

Mrs Kershaw told the court the three snares, which she checked every day, had been in the same positions every spring for the last 14/15 years and had only ever caught rabbits attempting to steal growing vegetables from her garden.

The first cat, Marley, a tabby and white Bengal/Savannah type, was found by Mrs Kershaw on April 26.

Mrs Kershaw told the court she spotted the…