Shocking footage shows an owner grabbing his Staffordshire bull terrier before hurling him over a gate - and onto concrete.<br /><br />Kieran O’Connor, 35, has been banned from keeping pets for five years after leaving pet Prince “exposed to acute pain”.<br /><br />CCTV shows self-employed gardener O’Connor, from Liverpool, launching the elderly dog from the pavement instead of opening the gate so he could walk in.<br /><br />Prince can be seen in the footage falling on his side and stumbling up as O'Connor lets himself into the garden through the gate.<br /><br />Liverpool & Knowsley Magistrates’ Court was told the RSPCA investigated the case after a worried member of the public forwarded the clip on.<br /><br />At sentencing on July 2 he was also given a community order which involves 26 programme requirement days and ordered to pay costs of £500 and a victim surcharge of £114.
