Owner of two poisoned cats tracked down the criminal
NEWS AND COMMENT - BARGOED, WALES, UK: This is not an untypical story of cat poisoning. It happens all over the world a lot of the time but what I like about this story is that the owner tracked down the criminal who did it. This is quite an unusual outcome because cat poisoners can do their nasty deed in secrecy and it is very hard normally to find the evidence to successfully prosecute these criminals. What were the police doing? Nothing I expect. Owner of two poisoned cats tracked down the criminal. On the left: Ethylene glycol and on the right the laced tuna as found by the cats' owner in the backyard of the poisoner and criminal. Photo: PA. Tristian Paul Pearson, 44, was the criminal. He poisoned his neighbour's cats Luna and Bailey who were owned by a father and daughter two houses down from Pearson. Pearson laced tuna with ethylene glycol and in an act of extreme carelessness (thankfully) he left containers of ethylene glycol and of poisoned tuna in his backyard. When th...