A heartless thug was seen laughing after he repeatedly ran over an endangered bird in a McDonald’s car park.
Wildlife experts had rescued the great blacked gull and named it Albert Tross before realising it just weeks before it was brutally killed in burger chain’s car park in Harwich, Essex.
Great blacked gulls are red-listed and a bird of conservation concern and it is illegal to intentionally kill them. RSPCA officials are investigating the incident.
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Wildlives Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre, near Colchester, Essex, had nursed Albert Tross back to health after he was found injured and he was released into the wild last month.
(Image: Rosie Catford / Wildlives RRC / SWNS)
The centre’s team identified the bird because he had been tagged on his release to the wild, despite the grim incident occurring 20 miles away. Centre owner Rosie Catford said Albert had been found dehydrated, starving and unable to stand before he was rehabilitated.
She said: “He was deliberately run over and disembowelled.
“Several members of the public witnessed the incident and the perpetrator drove off laughing.
“He’d improved so much from his admission to us.”
(Image: Rosie Catford / Wildlives RRC / SWNS)
An RSPCA spokesperson said they were investigating the incident which took place on October 20.
They said: “The RSPCA has been made aware of this upsetting incident and is investigating.
“We would ask if anyone has any first hand information regarding this incident to please call the RSPCA inspectorate appeal line on 0300 123 8018 quoting incident 01385508.”
Not all Brits are as heartless, as a Scot proved when he scaled a massive lamppost to rescue a trapped gull while on a night out.
Like a superhero on a mission, the man was spotted scaling a massive lamppost on Sauchiehall Street, in Glasgow city centre to reach the bird which had found itself stuck close to the top of a strangely-designed lamppost.
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