A man has been banned from keeping animals for 10 years after magistrates heard how he’d used a mop to attack a dog.<br /><br />Adam Wardle was caught on CCTV punching and kicking the three-year-old tan mastiff cross, called Bobby, before continuing his cowardly attack by using a mop handle on the canine.<br /><br />Wardle, 23, of Bondfield Crescent, Barnsley pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to the dog under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 and appeared for sentencing at Barnsley Magistrates’ Court on October 11.
