{"id":1097706,"date":"2022-05-24T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T13:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/24\/zouma-pleads-guilty-to-kicking-and-slapping-cat\/"},"modified":"2022-05-24T13:22:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T13:22:49","slug":"zouma-pleads-guilty-to-kicking-and-slapping-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/24\/zouma-pleads-guilty-to-kicking-and-slapping-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Zouma Pleads Guilty To Kicking And Slapping Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>West Ham United defender Kurt Zouma has pleaded guilty to kicking and slapping a cat after a video emerged of the incident in February.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old admitted two offences under the Animal Welfare Act at a hearing at Thames Magistrates\u2019 Court.<\/p>\n<p>Zouma\u2019s brother Yoan, who plays for Dagenham and Redbridge, pleaded guilty to one offence following an RSPCA investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Yoan, 24, filmed the incident, which was posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The brothers\u2019 addresses have been withheld following a court order.<\/p>\n<p>The court was told about disturbing footage of the incident, which was filmed at the West Ham player\u2019s home and posted on Snapchat by his brother on 6 February.<\/p>\n<p>It was later seen by a woman who had been messaging Yoan, and she raised concern.<\/p>\n<p>Zouma could be seen volleying the Bengal cat across his kitchen, before throwing a pair of shoes at it and slapping its head.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Hazel Stevens told the court that Kurt could be heard saying: \u201cI swear I\u2019ll kill it, I swear I\u2019ll kill it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He admitted two counts of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal.<\/p>\n<p>Yoan admitted one count of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring his older brother to commit an offence.<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham United defender Kurt Zouma has pleaded guilty to kicking and slapping a cat after a video emerged of the incident in February. The 27-year-old admitted two offences under the Animal Welfare Act at a hearing at Thames Magistrates\u2019 Court. Zouma\u2019s brother Yoan, who plays for Dagenham and Redbridge, pleaded guilty to one offence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1097708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4537,12871,4538,8384,14758,4670],"class_list":["post-1097706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cat","tag-guilty","tag-kicking","tag-pleads","tag-slapping","tag-zouma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}