An exotic pet owner dumped three snakes in a bin outside a school after seeing the electricity bill to heat their tanks, a court heard yesterday.
Samuel Newton, 35, stuffed the 5ft long Royal Pythons in supermarket carrier bags and drove to St Augustine's secondary school in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, on the morning of June 29 this year.
He abandoned the pythons, which he had cared for for years, in a 3ft long cast iron litter bin because it was a public place where he hoped they would soon be found.
