A VILE cat killer had his jaw broken in an apparent revenge attack, it was revealed yesterday.
Anthony Docherty, 24, was jumped and battered by two strangers - before a passing motorist stopped to help him.
The monster - jailed for eight months last year for mutilating the helpless moggies at his home in Clarkston, Glasgow - was treated in hospital for a fractured jaw.
He was attacked last Friday in Barrhead, Renfrewshire - where he was rehoused following his release after threats were made against him. One local cat owner, who declined to be named, said: "I wouldn't say violence is the best way to deal with him.
"But we never heard in full what he did to those poor cats."
Another neighbour added: "That man should never have been given a house in Barrhead."
But Det Con Gary Gallacher of Giffnock Police Office said: "This was a mindless act of violence carried out against a lone man, making his way home."
Docherty was jostled and heckled as he left Paisley Sheriff Court after pleading guilty to cruelty in May last year.
The court heard how he pulled the tail off one puss and decapitated and scalped others.
Three cat skulls were also found in his garden.
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Anthony Docherty, 24, was jumped and battered by two strangers - before a passing motorist stopped to help him.
The monster - jailed for eight months last year for mutilating the helpless moggies at his home in Clarkston, Glasgow - was treated in hospital for a fractured jaw.
He was attacked last Friday in Barrhead, Renfrewshire - where he was rehoused following his release after threats were made against him. One local cat owner, who declined to be named, said: "I wouldn't say violence is the best way to deal with him.
"But we never heard in full what he did to those poor cats."
Another neighbour added: "That man should never have been given a house in Barrhead."
But Det Con Gary Gallacher of Giffnock Police Office said: "This was a mindless act of violence carried out against a lone man, making his way home."
Docherty was jostled and heckled as he left Paisley Sheriff Court after pleading guilty to cruelty in May last year.
The court heard how he pulled the tail off one puss and decapitated and scalped others.
Three cat skulls were also found in his garden.
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