By Chris Dyer For Mailonline
Published: 21:02 BST, 13 June 2019 | Updated: 21:02 BST, 13 June 2019
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A dog owner has been banned from keeping animals for 10 years after he tried to kill a terrier by shooting it four times in the head with an air rifle before dumping the animal in a bush.
Simon Hancock, 37, treated Jet the Lakeland terrier in a 'shockingly brutal manner' by shooting and abandoning him while still alive but 'horrendously injured'.
Animal charity RSPCA say Jet, just 15 months old at the time, experienced unimaginable suffering as he spent five days collapsed in woodland while seriously wounded.
Fortunately a member of the public found Jet near Hedge End, Hampshire, on July 16 last year and a court heard he suffered fly-strike with thousands of fly eggs around pellet holes in his head.
Jet recovering after being rescued when a member of the public found him in a bush near Hedge End in Hampshire
Simon Hancock outside Southampton Magistrates Court where he was found convicted of causing unnecessary
