The judge admitted that there was ‘vehement suspicion’ that the the dog was dead, yet there was no corpus delicti. How can you prove that he killed it, if it cannot be proved that it is dead?

It is beyond doubt that Juan G.L. from Ogíjares (near Granada) was not over fond of his neighbour’s dog, whose barking was driving him up the wall. There were two witness that saw the man slip a rope around its surprised neck and dangle him by it on that fateful 7th of October 2012. He was also seen to bundled the dog into his car boot with the help of his wife and drive off… but was the dog dead?

Nobody has seen the dog again, that’s for sure.

However, the accused man explained that he was intent on taking the dog to a animal shelter but that the dog escaped before he could hand it over.

The judge was further swayed by the fact that the statements by the two witnesses, both janitors, contradicted each other in places, and by a police report that confirmed that the dog was hadn’t been seen since.

Why the man wasn’t fined, at the very least, for the demonstrable cruelty to animals; i.e., dangling it by its neck on a slip knot is just one of the unfathomables of the Spanish judicial system…

I’ve just looked back through our archives for October 2012 and found the original article by Martin, which mentions two policemen being present, as well, which you can read HERE.

(News: Ogijares, Granada, Andalucia)