A man has been jailed for four months for savagely killing two baby gulls, spiking one of them on a fence.
Terrence Johnston, 41, impaled the first bird on railings, before slamming the second into a hard surface and discarding it over a fence. Both fledglings were killed instantly, reports ChronicleLive.
Johnston, from Sunderland, admitted the horrifying attacks after he was arrested. He appeared before magistrates in South Tyneside on Monday (October 8) and was jailed for 16 weeks.