Yobs kill family's beloved pet peacock with slingshots and catapults - before ... trends now
Yobs killed a family's beloved pet peacock by shooting it more than 20 times with slingshots and catapults, before contacting the owners to warn them, 'you are going to be next'.
A family was left in tears after watching River their peacock, which they rescued from his abusive previous owners, be brutally killed by the sadistic group on CCTV footage.
River's owner, Alison Carter, 57, posted the footage from a neighbour's CCTV camera of the suspects on Facebook, showing five boys and one girl firing at the peacock who was perched in a tree.
One member of the twisted group messaged her daughter Macey, 23, threatening: 'Your peacock is 6ft under and you are going to be next'.
Alison and her family rescued River (pictured) nearly six years ago after he had been kept in a small box without sunlight and was found 'featherless and frightened'
Now, their beloved pet has been killed by a group of yobs who they caught shooting at River with catapults
'Devastated' owner, Alison Carter (pictured), 57, said River was 'part of the family', behaved 'like a dog' and would have even 'trusted' the group of strangers who killed him
In the sickening footage three of the boys are seen pelting River more than 20 times from the road before climbing over the fence on to the roof of a private property to carry on their assault on the innocent bird.
A petrified and injured River, who Alison says would have 'trusted' the group of strangers, is seen falling out of the tree, flapping around in distress and cowering in a corner.
Appallingly, the gang continue to aim at him from the rooftop before two dash forward, grab River by his wings and hold him up as a trophy, before one rips out his feathers.
They flee like cowards after trying to hide his blood-soaked body in the corner behind some wood.
Alison, 57, said 'I was devastated, and I still am. He was part of the
