A HULL man is behind bars this evening after throwing a pet rabbit from the balcony of a block of flats.
Bilal Yilmaz, 22, was sentenced to 20 weeks in prison after pleading guilty to animal cruelty.
The court heard how Yilmaz not only killed a pet rabbit after throwing it 40ft from a balcony at his former home in William Street, Hull, but he also threw a second rabbit against a wall, leaving it to suffer in a cardboard box for over a month.
The rabbit was discovered by officers back in February this year and had to be put down.
Yilmaz, now of Beverley Road, Hull,also pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman and a young child.
Sentencing Yilmaz to 20 weeks in prison, District Judge Frederick Rutherford, said: "It is unbelievable that a person could subject anything to such an horrific attack. This case is absolutely overwhelming."
