A cruel pet owner has been banned from keeping animals for 20 years after punching his dog in the face and allowing it to be hit by a train.
Cameron Casson allowed his dog to walk without a lead at a railway station in Lancashire and she was struck by a slow-moving train.
The puppy, named Cali, was just ten-months-old when she was wounded at Bane Lane Station near Morecambe on July 19 last year.
Casson was handed an eight-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months after the court heard details of how the Staffordshire Bull Terrier was wounded.
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