An animal rights group is offering a reward to help track down the people responsible for mutilating and dumping two reptiles in St Albans.
PETA has offered £1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for mutilating a royal python and a monitor lizard and abandoning their bodies in Park Street Lane.
The reptiles, each a metre in length, were found last Sunday with clean incisions along the underside of their stomachs, and their internal organs were missing.
PETA associate director Elisa Allen said: “It’s imperative that any community faced with a sadistic and violent act like this take measures to find the culprits and bring them to justice.
“Animal abusers are a danger to everyone and must be caught before they act again.”
Anyone with information about this case is encouraged to contact the RSPCA on 0300 123 8018.
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