A MAN from Wrexham who threw a Yorkshire terrier out of a first floor window has been jailed for 18 weeks.

Nathan Kendrick was told by district judge Gwyn Jones that “death or serious injury was likely” to the dog from his reckless actions.

But the terrier cross, which was owned by his former partner, survived the drop unscathed and was reunited with her and her two children who had witnessed the mean act.

Kendrick admitted causing unnecessary suffering to an animal in Wheatsheaf Lane, Gwersyllt, on July 11 last year.

He also pleaded guilty to assaulting Lucy Lewis by beating her on the same day.

Prosecutor James Neary said Ms Lewis had been in an “on/off” relationship with Kendrick which she broke off after learning from social services that Kendrick had been involved in domestic incidents previously.

She had taken the dog on a lead to pick up her son who was playing with friends in a park near to where Kendrick lived.

He tried to talk to her but she walked off home and he took the dog off her saying he was taking it for a walk to Gwersyllt train station.

“She rang the defendant later when he told her the dog was 'dead',” Mr Neary told North East Wales Magistrates Court at Mold.

Panic-stricken Ms Lewis went around to Kendrick’s home and saw him in an upstairs bedroom window.

“He opened it and held the dog and threw it through the window. He (the dog) yelped and started to bark,” said Mr Neary.

Kendrick claimed the dog landed on a parked car but in the row that ensued he pushed his former partner and she fell over in front of her children.

She told police: “I am scared of Nathan and I didn’t think he would stop.”

Kendrick, 25, of Wheatsheaf Lane, Gwersyllt, admitted to officers that he threw the dog out of the window.

Emily Carlisle, defending, said he had taken the dog out to “relieve his tension”.

“It was a short drop and the dog landed on a car. He says it was a stupid spur of the moment decision and he did it in temper. He had no intention of hurting the dog and thankfully it wasn’t.

“He said he would have not been able to live with himself if the dog had been hurt.”

But the district judge said: “Throwing a dog from a first-floor window is a deliberate act of causing suffering.

“It was done in the view of the children who owned the dog and caused distress as I am sure this is a well-loved animal.

"It was more luck that the dog was not maimed or killed.”

Kendrick was also placed under a restraining order for four years.