NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
An Austrian count shot his wife’s dog dead and hid its body during a divorce row – before later claiming he was putting the dog out of its misery.
Earlier this year Count Konrad Goess-Saurau, 70, denied a charge of criminal damage on the grounds that it was reasonable to ‘destroy’ the animal to end his suffering.
Swindon Magistrates’ Court was told on Friday the German pointer named Herman was solely owned by the count’s wife, Countess Susan Goess-Saurau.
Prosecutor Ben Worthington said she arrived home at Temple Farm, Marlborough, Wiltshire, on November 21 last year and couldn’t find Herman.