Halifax man sentenced to house arrest for burning cat
Posted: Apr 19, 2021 4:18 PM AT | Last Updated: April 20 A 57-year-old Halifax man has been sentenced to 90 days of house arrest for an animal cruelty charge for burning a cat. Timothy Wayne Robinson was sentenced Monday morning in Nova Scotia provincial court in Halifax. Court was told that on Dec. 28, 2017, Halifax Regional Police were called to an apartment in Spryfield for a complaint of animal cruelty. In a statement of facts read into the record, the responding officer said he detected the smell of burnt hair. When he entered Robinson's apartment, the officer saw a cat with singed fur o...