VIDEO: RSPCA reveal sickening attack on pet dog in Walkden

In shocking video footage shown to the Manchester City Magistrates Court, Jamie Lee Wilson, 23, of Birch Road, Walkden is seen repeatedly punching Staffordshire bull terrier Bob in the back yard of the house of Chelsea Alice Clayton, 25, of Memorial Road, as the animal cowers in fear as the blows rain down on him

BEATEN: Bob the Staffordshire bull terrier

At a hearing in February, the pair were convicted of one offence under the Animal Welfare Act of causing unnecessary suffering to Bob by subjecting him to unreasonable physical violence, and appeared before magistrates to be sentenced yesterday on Tuesday.

Wilson, of Birch Road, was given 14 weeks jail and disqualified from keeping animals for 10 years.

He has appealed his sentence but was refused bail pending that hearing to be heard at Manchester Crown Court.

Clayton was given eight weeks custody suspended for 12 months; a 15-day rehabilitation order; disqualified from keeping animals for eight years and ordered to pay £200 costs.

Sentencing them, the District Judge Mark Goozee described the footage as “shocking” and their actions as “deliberate, prolonged and despicable”.

He described Bob as being “in significant distress”.

RSPCA inspector Vicki McDonald said: “This was a really shocking case which is reflected by the sentences handed down.The footage of Bob being beaten is very distressing to watch.

“Whilst Bob is actually largely obscured from view because of a wall, you can see Clayton and Wilson raising their fists and repeatedly punching him, grabbing him and throwing him around during the two separate incidents that were caught on camera.

“They are viciously beating him and all the time you can hear him crying out in what certainly seems to be pain and fear.

“There can be no doubt that they knew they were hurting him.”

INJURY: Damage to Bob's mouth after the attack

Bob’s owner Dean Mark Anthony Smedley, 25, of Willow Tree Court, Eccles was at the property at the time of the offences. He was convicted in absence at the same hearing in February of two offences under the Animal Welfare Act of permitting or failing to prevent the causing of unnecessary suffering to Bob by unreasonable physical violence (1.) by Clayton and (2.) by Wilson.

On May 4, Smedley was sentenced to 18 weeks custody suspended for two years; ordered to do 150 hours of unpaid work; disqualified from keeping animals for seven years and ordered to pay £200 costs.