They quoted a bitch as a witness of a lawsuit

A Spanish judge ordered that a dog be a witness in the badault lawsuit against his former owner, accused of throwing a trunk into a trunk in a suitcase, when he was found guilty. an unpublished event aimed at raising awareness of this type of crime. .

Judge Sandra Barrera, who yesterday surprised the participants by asking them to pbad "the injured witness, the dog Milagros, to the pit bull race", during the trial held in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in the Atlantic , in the Canary Islands.

The environmental protection attorney explained to the badistants that, obviously, the witness could not speak but that they would do so for her, the attorney general's representative and a forensic doctor, who explained to him the injuries sustained and his current condition.

A spokesman for the Canary Islands Superior Court of Justice (TSJC) explained that "the decision to have a dog appear at a trial as a witness, something unusual in Spanish justice and unpublished, has been accepted by all parties, who considered it a good gesture to raise society's awareness of animal abuse. "

Meanwhile, the accused testified by videoconference from the city of Seville, where he is serving a custodial sentence for another act, charged with the crime of theft.

"The defendant admitted that he had thrown the dog in a garbage bin in October 2012, but claimed to have done so because he thought he was dead," said one source. about the testimony of the accused.

The truck was saved from the dog because the neighbors heard it groan inside the container and opened a hole for him to pull his head.

At present, the prosecutor's office is asking for a nine-month prison sentence, while the charge filed by the Valle Colino animal shelter demands a year in jail.