A woman who abused a dog for months alongside her partner dumped the body in a suitcase by the River Mersey - but left her own name on the side.
Chantelle Duvall-Gregory, 20, and Christy Carl-Hewitt, 21, subjected their dog to months of abuse before dumping it on the side of the River Mersey. Liverpool Magistrates' Court heard they had punched, kicked and stamped on two year old Belgian Shepherd Snoop, who was found dead inside a bright pink locked suitcase by a dog walker near the Speke and Garston Nature Reserve on January 11 last year.
But it became clear who had dumped the body very quickly as Duvall-Gregory’s name was embossed on the side. Peter Mitchell, prosecuting, said Snoop had “extensive bruising and fractures to the ribs”, two fractured canines, and it was clear the injuries sustained were “non-accidental”.
