A PET cat has been targeted in a sickening attack - by having boiling hot water poured over its head and back, the Daily Echo reports.

The female feline, which belongs to a Poole resident and nearly died after the incident, needed emergency treatment for serious burns and severe pain.

Now its elderly owner, who lives in Foxholes Road, Oakdale, has been left facing an anxious wait to see if her pet- which was attacked on Friday 13th - makes a full recovery.

It is also understood the cost of the treatment is likely to be around £2,000.

Initially it was feared some kind of corrosive liquid had been poured over the cat’s back, but a vet later determined it was more likely boiling water, quite possibly from a kettle.

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A BRADFORD drug dealer has been jailed for 32 months after turning up so late to court that an arrest warrant was issued for him, the Telegraph and Argus reports.

Judge David Hatton QC was less than impressed with Manwar Khan’s explanation for not getting to Bradford Crown Court anywhere near on time.

“I just woke up a bit late,” the defendant told him from the dock.

The court heard that Khan, 48, and co-accused Faheem Akhtar, 18, were caught red-handed drug dealing in Braybrook Court, Manningham, Bradford, at 7.50pm on July 7 last year.

Khan, who was living in a bedsit in Braybrook Court, was the driver of a Honda Civic with Akhtar, of Talbot Street, Listerhills, Bradford, in a back seat.

Prosecutor Joe Culley said Akhtar, who was 17 at the time, had a bag with him containing seven wraps of heroin, of 52 per cent purity, and 28 wraps of crack cocaine, of 69 per cent purity, together worth almost £500.

He also had £198 cash on him and a phone detailing his drugs transactions.

Akhtar was sentenced to 12 months in a young offender institution, suspended for two years, with 200 hours of unpaid work, a two month electronically monitored curfew and a rehabilitation activity requirement with the probation service.

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Khan was estranged from his family and homeless after he was evicted from his bedsit and he had pleaded guilty at the first opportunity and been frank with the police.