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The so-called Croydon cat killer does not exist, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed.
The force launched an investigation in 2015 into reports of mutilated cats, often with heads and tails removed, in Croydon and the surrounding area.
Twenty-five post-mortem examinations were carried out but found "no evidence" of human involvement, Scotland Yard said.
The investigation concluded humans were unlikely to have been responsible.
Instead, a fox or foxes are thought to be behind the mutilations.
During the probe, detectives received more than 400 similar reports of cats being mutilated across London and surrounding counties.
However, all of the cases of cat mutilation will be recorded as "no crime".
Six suspicious cases
Commander Amanda Pearson said each individual report had to be investigated, which led to an "increased workload" for officers working on the case.
"The decision was made to allocate a large number of similar reports of mutilated cats to the officers who were investigating the initial spate of such allegations," she said.
"In particular, they were following up six suspicious cases identified by the post-mortem examinations.
"It is this collating of reports that enabled officers to work with experts and reach the conclusion that no further police investigations are required into any of the allegations relating to mutilated cats."
The so-called Croydon cat killer does not exist, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed.
The force launched an investigation in 2015 into reports of mutilated cats, often with heads and tails removed, in Croydon and the surrounding area.
Twenty-five post-mortem examinations were carried out but found "no evidence" of human involvement, Scotland Yard said.
The investigation concluded humans were unlikely to have been responsible.
Instead, a fox or foxes are thought to be behind the mutilations.
During the probe, detectives received more than 400 similar reports of cats being mutilated across London and surrounding counties.
However, all of the cases of cat mutilation will be recorded as "no crime".
Six suspicious cases
Commander Amanda Pearson said each individual report had to be investigated, which led to an "increased workload" for officers working on the case.
"The decision was made to allocate a large number of similar reports of mutilated cats to the officers who were investigating the initial spate of such allegations," she said.
"In particular, they were following up six suspicious cases identified by the post-mortem examinations.
"It is this collating of reports that enabled officers to work with experts and reach the conclusion that no further police investigations are required into any of the allegations relating to mutilated cats."
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Cats and Foxes avoid each other,but not in croydon
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Thousands of police hours spent in the last 3 years,whoever gave the order for this waste of resources should be fired.
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Tru dat, they could have been sent back to do the normal police job these days which is finding people who've said politically incorrect things on Twitter and going in hard...
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money well spent then
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Somewhere in a dank London bedsit filled with decapitated toys a psycopathic dog rubs his paws and says "yes .the fools... yes .. the killing can go on"
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I'm surprised it wan't blamed on brexit.
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Has all the ingredients for a great conspiracy thread.
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Years ago the conspiracy would be that Indian restaurants were killing them and serving them up in the curries.
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There was a Chinese restaurant in Scotland (cant remember where) that closed after false rumours of cats and dogs being found in their freezers.
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If the Met wish to improve on their abysmal record of prosecutions relating to **** mutilation I suggest they turn their attention to the barbaric ritual of FGM
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*Pu55y Mutilation*
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It's a bit puzzling to me that of the reported 500 moggies that have mysteriously come to an untimely end in and around the Croydon area it is being put down to foxes. The reason I say that is that there are quite a lot of parks and woodlands around me and we get plenty of urban foxes looking for food and untold amounts of cats live locally but I've never heard of anyones cat being killed by a fox and that's over many years.
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Croydon is virtually crime free so maybe it gave the police something to occupy their time between school crossing duties .
Maybe where you live the cats move around in groups thus finding safety in numbers  |
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You're a bit suspicous perhaps they couldn't solve it and gave up?
I'd imagine if a fox tears a cat apart there would be fox saliva/dna all over the cat fur etc? Have they said this? |
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The only crimes ever solved by the Met are those with CCTV evidence . Without CCTV they couldn't solve a crossword !
As for DNA evidence they'd have to take mouth swabs from every fox withing a 5 mile radius . |
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A more worrying trend is the fact that since 2015 when their investigations began , knife and moped crime has soared . A classic example getting ones priorities all wrong
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Er ... they don't test DNA to identify WHICH fox, just that it WAS A fox!
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-45588088
I'm really struggling to buy into the polices explanation as to the deaths of 500 cats in such a small area such as Croydon is, it just doesn't make sense to me. |
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You'd think if cats and foxes were fighting there would be a noise and neighbours would be hearing it?
Is it a commom thing? I've never heard of it before. |
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If I'm reading the report correctly, the police are saying that the cats were road kill which was subsequently scavenged by foxes. It's very doubtful that a fox would attack a healthy cat unless defending cubs. Cats are equipped with the means of defending themselves and a fox is likely to come off the worse for wear in such an encounter.
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My childhoot cat sent dogs packing with bloody noses. A master of the claws out dab to the hooter she was :)
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Foinavon, I lived in a little village for years and I was used to seeing plenty of roadkill in the country lanes. Pheasants, rabbits, hares, squirrels badgers and so on but in all that time I never saw a cat that had been run over nor a dog for that matter. In my area now, again I have never seen a cat that has been mown down and if there was fighting between cats and foxes on my doorstep then I would have heard the screaming from my front room most definitely. I live about 7 miles due North from central Croydon by the way. As I said it absolutely makes no sense to me whatsoever. If I ran over a cat I would contact the owners if I could or take it to a local vet to check the microchip details as would anyone I would have thought.
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Quotes from the BBC news articles....
"It is this collating of reports that enabled officers to work with experts and reach the conclusion that no further police investigations are required into any of the allegations relating to mutilated cats.".......and it took 3 years for the experts to come to that conclusion?!! Of course there will be some evidence of foxes teeth marks in some of the cases.....simple explanation....they found them before the owners did AFTER they were killed by the sick individual/s. "The Met's inquiry found there was CCTV footage showing foxes carrying pet body parts in three cases. Dr Henny Martineau, head of veterinary forensic pathology at the Royal Veterinary College, carried out post-mortems on the six cats whose deaths were initially treated as "suspicious"." 3 cases of CCTV footage and 6 cats had a post-mortem out of hundreds of cats that have been mutilated. I personally know of one left outside the back door of my ex's neighbour opposite.....head cut off, tail cut off etc "I hope this conclusion brings comfort to pet owners who have, up until now, been frightened to let their animals out at night.".....what an absolute load of tosh. Next we will have a spate of fox kills around Croydon and the surrounding area by those stupid enough to believe this rubbish. A very inventive way of closing down a case that the police were just too incompetent to solve. Fake news at it's least believable.... . |
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It seems a little unlikely, doesn't it?
Surely the Fox versus Cat thing would have been a known thing. |
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Hundreds of thousands if not millions of song birds are tweeting happily in the Croydon area right now that otherwise would have been killed by these cats,not because the cats wanted them for food but purely because it's in their nature.
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I find it surprising TBH. While I accept that a fox will generally beat a cat it would certainly know it had been in a fight.
Far easier game to be had. |
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Slippy, I take your point, you don't see squashed cats in the road but I've sometimes had cats dash across in front of me and if one were clipped by a car it would likely carry on for a bit and hide somewhere where it might die. "400 cats across London and surrounding counties" might seem a lot but how many cats are there in such an extended area? Several million probably. I don't rule out that some are being killed deliberately by sick individuals, perhaps using poisoned food, but I would rule out killer foxes.
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Just Checking • September 20, 2018 5:53 PM BST
Er ... they don't test DNA to identify WHICH fox, just that it WAS A fox! First one in the keepnet , foul hooked cos I wasn't actually fishing , but It'll do for supper |
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Sorry Reynard when you share a forum with the like of [deleted] and [deleted] you stop understimating people's ability to say stupid things
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Like I said earlier , there are far more serious cases of 'mutilation' occurring in our wonderfully diverse capital city going unpunished , yet the grossly underfunded metropolitan police force would appear to have made a conscious decision to prioritise the less serious {potential}'crime'
 Fear not , just checking , I've returned you to the water and opted for a pasta bake instead |
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No one is saying - except on this thread - that foxes were killing the cats.
Rather the cats were run over and then foxes scavenged the bodies. Seems odd if the cats heads and tails were missing. |
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met police on twitter...
We note some media reports state our investigation showed cats in #Croydon and elsewhere were killed by foxes. In fact, the cats were killed due to major blunt force trauma consistent with vehicle collisions. Scavenging foxes then mutilated body parts - especially heads and tails |
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BREAKING NEWS : Met police spend THREE YEARS investigating 'Roadkill' ..............
It's not that you "Couldn't make it up" , You simply didn't need to make it up ! They actually did it |
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Littlejohn will have a field day with this.
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same cops working om mccann case
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maybe they are looking for a fox in portugal to fit up for the abduction?
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I never knew that foxes could drive cars.
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Didnt realise donny was a troll, wasting police time rather than wasting the interweb.
WAC |
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they make biscuits too
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