Overview
- Judge Stuart Rafferty KC sentenced Simon Elliott, 45, at Nottingham Crown Court on Oct. 7, 2025.
- Elliott pleaded guilty to two counts of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.
- Prosecutors said he stabbed Rosie the beagle through the heart and inflicted multiple knife wounds on Sabre, a Staffordshire bull terrier.
- A neighbour entered his Eastwood flat, found one dog dead and the other wounded, and described the scene as “abhorrent and barbaric.”
- The defence cited a psychotic episode and alcohol dependence, and a victim statement described the trauma of explaining the attacks to the owners’ children.