A woman who allegedly tried to throttle a cockerel and then lashed out at it causing brain damage due to incessant 3am crowing has been fined more than £1,400.
Caroline Smith admitted causing unnecessary suffering to Eddy, a black Araucana cross cockerel, when she erupted in fury in September last year.
The lorry driver was living at moorings off Westhoughton Road, Adlington, and Manchester Magistrates Court heard that the 52-year-old became increasingly frustrated at being woken at 3am.
