A man and woman who abused a dog for months before killing it and dumping its body by a river have avoided jail.
Chantelle Duvall-Gregory and Christy Carl-Hewitt put their dog through months of abuse before dumping it by the side of the River Mersey, but they had left one vital clue as to who had put it there. Duvall-Gregory, 20, had left her name printed on the side of the bright pink suitcase.
Liverpool Magistrates Court heard they punched, kicked, and stamped on their two-year-old Belgian Shepherd, Snoop, before it died after being given a granola bar which had raisins in. Its body was found locked inside the suitcase by a dog walker near the Speke and Garston Nature Reserve on January 11, 2022.
