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'Cat abuser' hands himself in to police

Friday 11 November 2011 20:00 EST

A man handed himself in to a police station after CCTV cameras caught a cat being swung by its tail.

Riain Reynolds, 20, presented himself at Margate police station after footage released by the RSPCA showed a man apparently dancing down a road in Ramsgate, Kent, with the black cat – called Mowgli – at arm's length .

Mowgli's owner, Michelle Buchanan, an IT teacher from Ramsgate, said: "It's horrific. Mowgli is distraught."

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