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The grisly discovery of a decapitated puss has sparked fears the 'Croydon Cat Killer' has notched up their 100th victim.

South Norwood Animal Rescue and Liberty (SNARL) said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that the headless cat was found in Morden, south west London.

Volunteers from SNARL went to the animal's "devastated" owners' house with police officers to recover the body for tests.

They say the case has all the hallmarks of the 'killer's' modus operandi.

In the past three years, at least 100 deaths are thought to have been attributed to the so-called kitty serial killer, with up to 10 new cases every month.

Police and the RSPCA have been investigating the deaths.

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Initially the killings were in south London, but suspected cases have been in west and north London, as well as Surrey, Kent, Brighton and Northamptonshire.

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SNARL has conducted 10 post-mortems and two examinations of body parts, such as tails, with the RSPCA has carrying out 16 post-mortems.

Boudicca Rising, of SNARL, says there are a further 20 cases that have met six of their eight criteria for them to include in the investigation.

She also says that since looking into the spate of deaths, a further 50 historic incidents matching the same pattern have been reported.

Boudicca said: “It’s safe to say there’s been at least 100 cases in the last two to three years. We consistently see nine to 10 deaths a month.”

Experts believe many of the cats died as a result of blunt force trauma and decapitated after death.

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Since the start of May, ten cats in Sutton, Harpenden, Biggin Hill, Clapham, Watford, Bromley and Orpington have been discovered, all without their heads.

A headless fox in Croydon and an owl in West Ham have also been linked.

One family suffered losing two cats in the space of a few weeks when a dead puss was found in their garden and their other cat went missing in Orpington, Kent.

Another family in south London was also targeted once in April, then again in May when another of their cats was killed in exactly the same way.

The first batch of killings was discovered in the Croydon area of south London, so the murderer was dubbed ‘The Croydon Cat Killer’.