A man in Lurgan, Ireland has been jailed for the murder of an 11-week-old puppy.
On July 10, Craigavon Crown Court sentenced 24-year-old Kyle Keegan to two and a half years for the crime. Keegan, who admitted earlier this year to animal cruelty, will spend half of his sentence behind bars.
After being released, he will spend the remainder of his sentence “on licence,” or required to adhere to certain restrictive conditions (similarly to what’s known as “probation” in the United States).
The judge also imposed a 30-year ban on Keegan having any animals in his care.
Keegan was arrested for causing unnecessary suffering to animals in February 2018, after a mixed-breed puppy named Sparky was brutally beaten with a hammer and placed inside a microwave during a house party. He was identified as one of two males seen committing the gruesome act in a viral video that circulated on Snapchat and other social media platforms.
After Keegan and his 16-year-old counterpart murdered Sparky, his body was disposed of in a garbage receptacle at Ailysbury Park in Lurgan. An autopsy determined that Sparky had multiple fractures and severe brain trauma as a result of his head being smashed.
A Lady Freethinker petition urging the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to arrest Sparky’s killers and ban them from having animals garnered nearly 25,000 signatures. Thank you to everyone who signed, helping in the fight to deliver justice to Sparky.
“It is difficult to imagine how violence could be any more gratuitous than when meted out to an 11-week-old small breed pup by the use of a claw hammer to stove its skull in,” Judge Neil Rafferty stated during Keegan’s sentencing.
“There is little can be said that would express the horror of this small dog’s death at your hands.”
A just outcome for this deplorable act!
I am very glad this man has been sentenced but the punishment needs to be longer!
We NEED to STOP all of this animal Cruelty. It breaks my heart to see all of the EVIL in the world.
You see this is what I am talking about. What little sentence he received, he only has to spend half of it. That is to unbelievably typical and stupid of the law system. That poor puppy suffered horrific torture before death. He was a baby ….11 WEEKS OLD. Just born and his life was cruelly taken by some evil, heartless, dumb ass twits. Instead of following through and severely punishing these pieces of crap harshly, .. a stupid, brainless moron of a judge let’s him serve half a sentence. Well …. wow, I wonder why crime run so rampant. It’s an idiotic, useless judicial system like this one who enables criminals. This is what I’ve been saying all along and will continue to say. THE CRIMINALS THINK THE LAW SYSTEM IS A BIG JOKE! Can you blame them. They know chances of being punished, (if being punished) is minimal to non existent. Good job justice system. That really sends a message to deter criminals. You gave him a sentence but not merely harsh enough to fit the crime he did for taking an innocent little life so horrifically. Mr. Judge you obviously don’t regard animal life as important. I think you and those cruel, heartless fools need to be locked in the same cell with three hammers and each of you enjoy beating the crap out of each other. You are all pathetic sub-human beings with no sense of morality. People like that, judges like you and the judicial system are all worthless!!!!!!
Hope the evil coward meets a big bad ass animal lover in his prison. Karma!
Should have put these lowlife pos in a room with absolutely no light, give someone a hammer and night enhancement eye wear and let them go to town on the abusers. Only then may they experience the terror this helpless dog felt. I’d do it.
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I pray you both die in excruciating agony and burn in hell for an eternity as your punishment
for the unimaginable torture, sufferng and an agonisingh death you mosnsters committed against
precious and innocent little puppy Sparky.
RIP little Sparky. Bless your precious soul. .
These two animal torturers and animal murderers must be put to death. Not a measly jail sentence. They will continue torturing and murdering the innocent and voiceless if not put to death. Bash these evil two monsters to death as their punishment.
I pray they die an agonising and an excruciating death. Burn i n hell you monsters for an eternity.
RIP precious and innocent little Sparky.
OMG……….THE PUNISHMENT for this monster KK who murdered Sparky is only a start. He should have spent many more years in jail, fined a huge amount, he was banned 30 years from having animals but that should have been a forever ban.
RIP POOR SPARKY AND WE THE PUBLIC OF THE WORLD ARE DISGUSTED AND APPALLED AT ANIMAL ABUSE AND TORTURE AND WE DEMAND, YES DEMAND SEVERE PUNISHMENT WHICH IS THEN ENFORCED. THIS MUST STOP AND STOP NOW!!
This was just a start. This monster should have spent many more years in jail, fined a huge amount but 30 years for a animal ban is OK but it should have been a forever ban. RIP POOR SPARKY AND WE THE PUBLIC OF THE WORLD DEMAND, YES DEMAND JUSTICE WHICH IS EXTREME PUNISHMENT FOR THESE MONSTERS AND THE PUNISHMENT MUST BE ENFORCED.
Well, I must say this is wonderful news! The rest of the world needs to sit up and take a lesson from this and make animal abuse of any kind to any animal an automatic jail sentence, one like this one, at least.
THIS JERK NEEDS MORE THAN JAIL…HEFTY FINES MUST BE PAID & DONATED TO ANIMAL PROTECTION GROUPS! NEXT, THIS MAN NEEDS TO BE HAMMERED ON HIS UGLY BRUTAL HEAD!!!
“HEAR!!!!, HEAR!!!!”
These people cannot be rehabilitated. Please rid the earth of these maggots!
“HEAR!!!!, HEAR!!!!”
Kyle Keegan and his 16-year-old accomplice brutally beat an 11-week-old puppy named Sparky to death in Lurgan, Ireland. He should spend his ENTIRE sentence behind bars, not just half! He is a danger and threat to society and animals and needs to be psychologically assessed and treated.
“Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.” -Schopenhauer
“Animals have no voice. They can’t ask for help. They can’t ask for freedom. They can’t ask for protection. Humanity must be their voice.” -A.D. Williams
Kyle Keegan of Kurgan, Ireland and his 16-year-old counterpart are disgusting and despicable human beings for what they did to an innocent 11-week-old puppy. A disregard for animal life will often foretell a similar view toward human life. Domestic abusers and other violent criminals frequently share one commonality in their pasts: cruelty to animals. Anyone capable of lashing out in anger at a defenceless animal must be considered potentially dangerous to the public at large. They must be incarcerated and their mental health assessed.
There are some seriously mentally disturbed people out there! If you can do that to an innocent animal, you are capable of anything!! This is a very dangerous person and needs a mental evaluation!