Katy Gammon has been told she faces prison after locking her boxer dog in a kitchen and leaving it to die (Picture: PA)

A solicitor who locked her pet dog in a kitchen and left it to die an agonising death is facing a prison term.

Katy Gammon moved out of her home and left her five-year-old boxer Roxy trapped inside without food or water.

It was not until neighbours reported a large amount of flies outside the property that the dog’s rotting remains were discovered 10 weeks later.

The animal was likely to have suffered a ‘prolonged and painful’ death over the course of six days, Bristol magistrates were told.


Gammon sobbed in the dock as the court heard how Roxy desperately tried to claw her way out of the kitchen and the court was told how the animal emptied cupboards of mops and buckets in an attempt to find water.



In a shocking twist, it emerged that piles of tinned dog food were found in Gammon’s hallway, just feet from where the dog was starving to death.

When police entered the property they found the kitchen door was kept shut by a length of rope attached from the handle to hooks in the hallway.

The dog’s decomposing corpse was discovered covered in maggots and a snow shovel had to be used to remove the remains.

Gammon pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to the dog and failing to prevent causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.

She has been told to expect a prison term when she is sentenced on April 9.