A couple who kicked their dogs, hit them with a broom and threw objects at them have been banned from keeping animals for 12 years.
Martin Butters, 61, and Kristine Viksnina, 42, from Bradford, were given suspended prison sentences after earlier pleading guilty to two offences contrary to the Animal Welfare Act 2006.

Bradford Magistrates heard how RSPCA Inspector Demi Hogby went with the police to their house on April 3 last year after the charity was sent videos - dating from November 2022 to March 2023 - from witnesses who’d heard the dogs yelping “several times a week”, after attacks.