A brazen man has been banned from owning pets after tormenting his pet dog with a hammer.
The unnamed man, 35, plead guilty to five animal cruelty offences after footage emerged from a witness showing his careless violence against the defenceless animal.
The footage was shot in Sydney's lower north shore in Australia, and showed the defendant, who is from Greenwich, using a hammer to threaten and prod his 10-month-old Dobermann named Ohlins, the RSPCA said.
