NEWS: "Who killed Farah the kitten?"

This piece of news was written by Jennifer Smith on 5 of March for the Daily Mail Online newspaper.

Neil Tregarthen has hired the services of private detectives to investigate the death of Farah, his daughter's kitten, because the police is not competent enough to find who was it's murderer.

Neil Tregarthen

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It all started around the end of September, when Farah, the little kitten of Aylish, Tregarthen's daughter, returned home badly wounded. The animal had been playing in the garden when someone supposedly shot it with an air rifle. The vets couldn't do anything for her and she died.

Neil went to the police and asked for a full investigation to find the murderer. Even when he gave them a potential suspect (with a witness supporting the accusation), the police of Exeter couldn't get to the bottom of it. That's why Tregarthen went to Focus Investigation, an office of private detectives. He payed them £10,000. Neil also put papers all around the city offering a reward of £1,000 to anyone who gave reliable information about the murder. 

Tregarthen's reward papers

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Focus Investigations made a report six weeks later, with the witness' declaration and other evidences. The police of Devon and Cornwall defended itself saying that they did do everything that was in their hands to discover the murderer (they even went to the RSPCA), but they couldn't do anything. When they told Aylish she understood.

Farah

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Aylish, however, said that she was angry at the police because they weren't investigating Farah's case. She thinks that police should condemn actions like this because they're illegal and some other day something worse could happen.

Personally, I think that is very cruel to shoot an animal with an air rifle. I mean, what reason could someone possibly have to do that? They should find whoever did it to punish him or her. Althought I find Tregarthen's reaction as a bit exaggerated, I understand it. An animal can become really important for someone.

VOCABULARY

kitten: a young cat.

to move on from something: to accept something and carry on with your life.

report: a detailed account of an event, situation, etc., usually based on what one has observed or asked questions about and written or said formally.