Oya, 52, was charged in August of last year with violating the Animal Protection Law. He is believed to have abused at least 13 stray cats in the eight months before he was arrested. Nine cats ...

A man who filmed himself killing cats by burning them alive with a blowtorch said it was a form of ‘pest control’. Makoto Oya shared the videos of the killings for 13 months before he was ...

Oya told the court on Tuesday that he had begun capturing stray cats and letting them go some distance away from his house around April 2015, after he found cat urine and faeces near his home.