A woman has been banned from keeping animals for the rest of her life after she left her cat to starve to death.
Deborah Ferry's three-year-old tortoiseshell cat Megan was found dead in the living room of the property in Wallsend, North Tyneside. The 49-year-old had moved out and failed to return to feed her for four days.
The severely decomposing remains of another cat were also discovered behind a bath panel inside the address on Tynemouth Road.
