Four youths convicted of torturing dog

(ANSA) - Cosenza, May 26 - Four young men were convicted of torturing and killing a dog in the Calabrian town of Sangineto last November.
    The four - Giuseppe Liparoto, Nicholas Fusaro and Francesco and Luca Bonanata - were found guilty of torturing the dog, Angelo, before finishing him off with a spade.
    The youths were sentenced to the maximum penalty of one year, four months in jail and also ordered to do six months' service at a dog pound.
    photo: a German shepherd