Young cat dies hours after being‘shot by a bolt’ - appeal for information

The cat died after being shot in Connor, outside Ballymena in Co Antrim.

In a post on Police Mid and East Antrim Facebook page yesterday, officers revealed they were called out “in the area of Connor whereby a young cat “Tigger” has lost his life”.

The post said it died as a result of “having been shot by a bolt”.

“The young cat returned to his home address today at around 1700 after being let out at 1200,” said the post.

“Police are requesting for any information to assist with an on going investigation into this matter.

“Should anyone from the kells and Connor area feel the information they have may be useful please contact the police on 101 quoting CC 1746 16/03/21”.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________

A message from our editor: Thank you for reading this article. We’re more reliant on your support than ever as the shift in consumer habits brought about by Coronavirus impacts our advertisers.

Please consider purchasing a copy of the paper. You can also support trusted, fact-checked journalism by taking out a digital subscription of the News Letter.