A pet owner has been jailed for throwing her dog from the top floor of a multi-storey car park in Australia.
CCTV footage shows the moment Amy Lea Judge, 26, threw her 10-year-old Maltese Shih Tzu named Princess, from the top floor of a shopping centre in Perth in April 2022.
The dog was rushed to the vet by a passerby, who checked the pet’s microchip and phoned the owner.
At the clinic, Judge was told Princess had sustained serious brain and spinal injuries and was ultimately put down.
Judge was jailed on Tuesday for 12 months and banned from owning an animal for ten years.
Sentencing Magistrate Mark Millington said Judge’s actions were “planned, deliberate, and intentional act.”
The footage played in the court shows Judge dangling Princess over the edge and allowing her to walk along the edge for eight minutes before throwing her.
Earlier this year, Judge's 23-year-old partner, Scott Frost, who was present during the incident, was fined 2,500 Australian dollars and banned from owning an animal for three years for failing to seek veterinary care for the dog.
She confessed in a Facebook post: "I can't live with the guilt, I threw my dog off the top story of a shopping centre car park and watched her fall to her death but she survived and needed to be put down due to how badly I injured her."
"I killed my dog and I need the truth out in the open... It's tearing me apart. I can't live with the lies anymore... I did her a favour because all I did was hurt her and abuse her."
She added: "Now everybody knows the truth and I can put my mind at ease knowing I no longer have to live with all the lies."
Kylie Green, inspector manager at the RSPCA in Western Australia, described the incident as the "most distressing" she had seen in her 11 years on the job.
She said: “Today’s outcome delivers some justice for the pain and terror poor Princess endured in her final hours.”
