Two teenagers detained over ‘sadistic’ torture and killing of two kittens in London

Boy and girl, both 17, pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to the protected animals

Two teenagers have been detained for the “sadistic” torture and killing of two kittens found cut open and hung in a wooded area in London.

A 17-year-old boy, who said he had dreamed of killing a human, butchered a small black kitten and hung it with rope near Ruislip, in the north-west of the capital, in May.