Jail for cat murderer

An ‘unhinged’ boyfriend has been jailed for more than a year for killing his lover’s cat in an ‘explosion of cruel violence’. Lawrence Santos, 24, claimed he had tried to give the moggy, named Mimi, a midnight bath while staying at then-girlfriend Rebecca Springer’s home in Maida Vale, last August 13. Ms Springer, 25, was woken by Santos telling her the cat was ‘not responding’ but she could see her new pet was bleeding from a head wound. A veterinary…