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Judge Doubles Jail Term for Man Who Threw Cats From Ang Mo Kio HDB Blocks

ANG MO KIO, SINGAPORE, JUL 9 – Barrie Lin Pengli’s jail term was increased to 27 months after abusing five cats due to frustration and major depressive disorder, with prosecutors emphasizing harsher penalties for animal cruelty.

Justice Vincent Hoong said the lower court's sentences were "overly lenient", wrongly relying on unreported cases and placing too much mitigating weight on the cat killer's major depressive disorder.

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A resident of Šalčininkai district found two bags with young kittens and a puppy in a stream. The animals were already dead. Animal shelters say that such cases are extremely common - they encounter abandoned animals every week. People tie the animals up in bags, put them in boxes, throw them on the streets or drown them in rivers. More about this in the TV3 news report. Andrejus shared a video in which he recorded the discovery of the kittens…

·Vilnius, Lithuania
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fakt.pl broke the news in on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
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