Shane Barrett beheaded the chickens (Picture: SWNS)

A woman deleted a guy as a friend on Facebook, so he responded to the pretty reasonable rejection by beheading her chickens.

Tanya Vincent rescued the four egg-laying hens that had been destined for the slaughterhouse.

She became worried after noticing that three of them had gone missing and starting searching for them by contacting friends and local vets.

Animal-lovers raise £5,000 for memorial of beloved bus stop cat killed in a hit and runBut she was left devastated after finding her pets Queenie, Shy and Dancer had been brutally killed, decapitated and dumped on her doorstep.


A fourth, known as Rosie, was seriously injured but survived and been re-homed. The chicken killer was homeless man Shane Barrett, 30, who received a nine week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months.



After the case, Tanya, 45, of Cornwall, said Barrett had ‘murdered my girls’ in response to her distancing herself from him on social media.

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Tanya Vincent’s late chicken companion (Picture: SWNS)

She said: ‘Those girls were my girls. They could not fight back. He did this because I unfriended him. He terrorised and tortured and finally committed murder against my girls.

Couple beat woman to death before stealing Kinder Egg case hidden in her vagina’I am finding it too hard to put into words how I feel right now. Of course I’m devastated, it makes it so hard to think they were living their lives like they should be, but their last moments were so horrible.’

Tanya said she first noticed something was not right when she looked out of the window while making them some treats and one of the birds was gone. She recalled: ‘I went to take the stuff down and I noticed Queenie was missing.

‘I was concerned and put something on my Facebook page and in the time it took me to do that the others were gone.’

One chicken survived and has since been rehomed (Picture: SWNS)

Tanya says she wants to expose Barrett for what he did and warn others what he is capable of. She added: ‘I have never experienced such cruelty in my life.

‘I have not slept, eaten or stopped crying in days. Even my other animals are pining. Sympathy does not bring them back. Exposure may stop it happening again.’

Tanya has been actively helping and rescuing animals for most of her life and said she would not be deterred by the incident.

She is part of a network to rescue animals and had the chickens since February when she took them from the British Hen Welfare Trust, the organisation prevented from going to slaughter.

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