A man convicted on two charges of animal cruelty and a host of drug offences was told in the Greymouth District Court yesterday that imprisonment was the only appropriate punishment.
Hayden Growcott, 21, from Cobden, had already pleaded guilty and been convicted on one charge of beating a cat to death and one charge of severely burning another.
However, he also pleaded guilty to seven charges of offering to supply methamphetamine (P), one charge of offering to sell the drug, one of offering to sell cannabis and two of receiving.
Judge Stephen O'Driscoll told Growcott he had been scheduled to be sentenced yesterday but he would now be sentenced together on all the charges on November 18.
"The only sentence which can be imposed is a sentence of imprisonment," the judge said. Growcott was remanded in custody.
