George Smart, 74, attends Highbury Corner Magistrates Court, London, where he received a two month suspended prison sentence and was banned from owning pets for life, after he threw a puppy from a sixth floor flat after his wife asked him to find it a new home. Smart of central London, admitted one count of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal on January 1, after Susie, a nine-month-old black Labrador cross plunged more than 100ft to the ground after being thrown off the balcony of Smart's then apartment in Camden, north London.

George Smart, 74, attends Highbury Corner Magistrates Court, London, where he received a two month suspended prison sentence and was banned from owning pets for life, after he threw a puppy from a sixth floor flat after his wife asked him to find it a new home. Smart of central London, admitted one count of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal on January 1, after Susie, a nine-month-old black Labrador cross plunged more than 100ft to the ground after being thrown off the balcony of Smart's then apartment in Camden, north London. Stock Photo
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1391 x 2204 px | 23.6 x 37.3 cm | 9.3 x 14.7 inches | 150dpi

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19 January 2004

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London UK

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Edmond Terakopian

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