The RSPCA will bring charges if they deem it worthwhile.
Isolated incidents wouldn't usually lead to prosecution in that the the cat was recovered alive and pretty much in good health.
Court appearances and fines are generally given to prolonged periods of abuse (starving animals who are flea-ridden, ill, with abcesses, living amogst their own filth with over/ inter-breeding etc)
And I do agree that she should be getting protection if she has received death threats.
I adore cats. If that had been Diz I would be incandescent with rage. But it's not worth the death of a human being.
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