British man kills protected seagull in front of horrified children by smashing it against a wall only because it stole his chips
Several in the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare watched on in horror as 65-year-old John Llewellyn Jones took his anger out on a lesser black-backed seagull.
A British man who brutally killed a protected seagull by bashing it repeatedly against a wall has been found guilty of the crime. 65-year-old John Llewellyn Jones, a retired delivery driver from Cardiff, was found guilty of a charge of animal cruelty for the July 2017 offense committed in the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare and ordered to pay a £750 ($994) fine by the judge.
According to the Daily Mail, Jones was on a day trip to the town on July 17 when a lesser black-backed seagull knocked a bag of chips out of his hands. Incensed, the 65-year-old grabbed the bird by its leg and smashed it against a wall until it was near death. The seagull was rushed to a vet by a witness but was ultimately euthanized.