A cruel dog owner who left her dog called Rocky to starve to death inside a filthy house after she moved to live with a new partner has been spared jail.
Carrie Hansford abandoned her Staffordshire Bull Terrier - who had been her pet for 10 years - leaving him to die a slow and painful death surrounded by huge piles of rubbish and his own waste.
Distressing photographs show the starved dog's corpse lying in the filth. Handsford had seen the dog the day after he died but instead of alerting authorities, left his tiny body to rot before heading back to her new lover's home, a court heard previously.