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A man who mutilated his housemate’s dog was “high on drugs” at the time, an Australian court heard, Friday. The man mutilated the Staffordshire terrier by cutting off its head, legs and tail in Adelaide, July 2018.

James Alexander Rech, 20, admitted to a string of offences including animal cruelty and slashing another man with a knife.

Describing the incident as “bizarre” and Rech’s behavior as “unfathomable,” defense lawyer Stephen Ey told the court that he severed the dog’s head and then went outside holding it.

“That is indicative of the bizarre behaviour that the effect of this combination of drugs and medication had upon him. Having committed the terrible act of severing the head of the dog, he’s gone outside holding it up. One can’t fathom what he was thinking at that time,” Ey said.

Ey also said Rech suffered from health problems.

“Clearly he has been and is a very troubled young man,” he said.

Court heard that Rech told the psychologist he loved fighting with others and also felt good by hurting someone else, Yahoo reported.

A lawyer for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the dog was stabbed 18 times. It had died before it was decapitated.

“It was an extremely cruel, painful and frightful way for that dog to die. It’s difficult to comprehend the terror that dog experienced,” the lawyer said.

Rech will be sentenced later this month.
https://www.ibtimes.com/man-kills-housemates-dog-walks-out-decapitated-head-2753770
 
24 Jan 2019
An Adelaide man who decapitated and dismembered his housemate's eight-month-old dog during a drug-fuelled crime spree has been jailed for at least three years.

James Alexander Rech, 20, pleaded guilty to a string of offences he committed between April 2017 and July 2018 including theft, assaulting police, aggravated causing harm with intent and ill-treating an animal to cause death.

On July 10, 2018 police found Rech standing in the middle of North East Road covered in blood.

He was holding the severed head of a dog in one hand and a meat cleaver in the other.

The District Court heard Rech decapitated and dismembered his housemate's dog, Warlock, as revenge for an outstanding debt.

Judge Sophie David sentenced Rech to five years and six days in jail with a non-parole period of three years.

"Your offending in using a meat cleaver to decapitate and dismember your housemate's pet dog is nothing short of abhorrent," she said.

"Your conduct was also premeditated in that you had threatened doing so if he failed to pay a debt."

The day before Rech killed the dog, the court heard he stabbed an associate of his who was visiting the home before making him sit in a bath tub and use a blowtorch and a knife to cauterise the wounds.

Judge David said the attack had a profound impact on the victim who has autism.
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