A grandfather who snatched much-loved chicken Betty White and tossed it into an alligator pen at a wildlife park had his application for Australian citizenship rejected after he was charged, a judge has revealed.
When deciding Peter Smith's appeal against the severity of his sentence for animal cruelty, Judge Timothy Gartelmann said the New Zealander had displayed a lack of insight into how serious his offending had been at the time but now realised what he had done was wrong.
