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'SHE WANTED TO KEEP THE HEADS'

Twisted drunk woman cut her snakes’ heads off with scissors and ATE them

A DRUNK who cut the heads off her two pet snakes with scissors before swallowing them avoided jail yesterday.

Jennifer Lampe, 28, had the still-moving but headless body of a boa constrictor round her neck when she was discovered by police.

 Jennifer Lampe avoided jail after admitting to cutting her snakes' heads off with scissors
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Jennifer Lampe avoided jail after admitting to cutting her snakes' heads off with scissorsCredit: PA:Press Association

She had the snakes' heads in her pockets, having vomited them up as she had "wanted to keep them".

The RSPCA’s Roger Price told Telford JPs the snakes' suffering was “prolonged and painful”.

Lampe executed her boa constrictors as she feared being made homeless, and did not want to leave them with her sister and her boyfriend, who she did not believe would look after them properly.

 Police found Lampe with this snake's body, still moving, wrapped around her neck
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Police found Lampe with this snake's body, still moving, wrapped around her neckCredit: Tom Flathers Photography
 She ate the snakes' heads but vomited them up and kept them in her pocket
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She ate the snakes' heads but vomited them up and kept them in her pocketCredit: Tom Flathers Photography

 

 Lampe killed her snakes because she feared being made homeless and didn't trust family to look after them
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Lampe killed her snakes because she feared being made homeless and didn't trust family to look after themCredit: Tom Flathers Photography

Chairman of the bench Sue Tyrrell said it was “a rather unpleasant, not to say bizarre, incident”.

Lampe, of Market Drayton, Shrops, admitted causing unnecessary suffering.

The court heard how Lampe had previously put an unwanted cat in a plastic bag, then taken it on a bus and released it. It was the second cat she had disposed of, the first having been "dumped behind a fence".

 Lampe had a long history of mistreating animals having deliberately drowned a hamster and dumped two unwanted cats - but this is the most violent of her acts yet
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Lampe had a long history of mistreating animals having deliberately drowned a hamster and dumped two unwanted cats - but this is the most violent of her acts yetCredit: Tom Flathers Photography

Weeks before decapitating her snakes she had also thrown her pet hamster in a fish tank and watched it drown, as it irritated her by making too much noise in the night.

She received a four-month suspended jail term, and a five year ban from keeping animals.