Arbaz Hamza Hamid, 24, gave the vet the “coup de grace” at the end of several minutes’ of aggression by a group of people towards the animal surgeon.
The dog, a bitch, had been bought from America for several thousand pounds, York Crown Court heard.
Through his barrister, Rachel Webster, Hamid claimed the dog had cost £4,000 to £5,000 and was solely a “family pet” owned jointly by the three men including Hamid and two women who had confronted the vet on January 16 last year in his surgery off Poppleton Road, York.
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