Animal Welfare: Sentencing
(asked on 13th April 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average sentence served has been by people convicted of animal cruelty in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 25th April 2017
The table below provides the average custodial sentence length for offences under s4 (causing unnecessary suffering) of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 for each of the last five years for which figures are available.
Year | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
Average custodial sentence length (months) | 3.1 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.3 |