A non-resident worker from Vietnam was caught on January 4 for abusing a cat, the first case under the city’s first-ever animal protection law with took effect on September 1 last year, a Public Security Police (PSP) spokesperson has announced.
According to the spokesperson, the suspect, surnamed Pham, is in his twenties.
The spokesperson told a press conference on Friday that the owner of a car repair shop found a pool of blood on the ground outside his garage in Travessa dos Prazeres on October 30 last year. Suspecting something wrong, the owner then watched his shop’s CCTV footage to see what had happened.
This photo taken yesterday shows the alley, Travessa dos Prazeres, where the animal abuse case happened in October. Photo: Debby Seng
