A convicted killer tortured a hedgehog by cutting its stomach so its intestines were exposed. It was the second act of animal cruelty committed by the sadist after he set fire to another hedgehog and cut off its limbs.
Richard Coyle, 56, was arrested at a house in Crosskeys, Caerphilly, on September 29, last year where they found a mutilated female hedgehog which was still alive but covered in blood and a "white creamy substance". The defendant was found in bed, naked from the waist down and was wearing prosthetic breasts.
A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday heard Coyle was lying in bed with various items including a cucumber, a vacuum pipe, a gas stove, women's clothing, a shard of mirror, binoculars held together by tape, and two lit candles.
