Child sex abuse trial: Accused "poisoned victim's pet cats"

The woman says Basharat Hussain (38), who is accused of 15 child sex abuse offences, did not tell her why he had poisoned the animals.

“I just found them in the garden think it was when I was about 18,” she recalled in a police interview shown to Sheffield Crown Court.

“I loved them two cats they were brother and sister I found them in the garden curled up dead and he laughed.

“He said: ‘I've poisoned them’, I don't remember why.

“There had been nothing wrong with them up to that point, they were only young cats.”

Hussain denies all the charges against him.

The trial continues.