West Ham defender Kurt Zouma has been sentenced to to 180 hours of neighborhood service after he pleaded responsible of kicking a cat.
The defender was handed a 12-month neighborhood order and likewise banned from maintaining cats for 5 years, along with paying almost £9,000 in court docket prices.
In a video that was shared on social media by his brother, the Frenchman kicked and slapped his cat in a video that inflicting a significant social media uproar.
An announcement from West Ham on Wednesday confirmed the identical;
“West Ham United can affirm that Kurt Zouma has been handed a neighborhood service order following an investigation by the RSPCA.
“West Ham United needs to clarify that we condemn within the strongest phrases any type of animal abuse or cruelty. Such a behaviour is unacceptable and isn’t in keeping with the values of the soccer membership.
“Inside 48 hours of the footage rising, we fined Kurt the utmost out there to the membership.
“Each single penny of this cash is now with quite a few deserving charities, all devoted to animal welfare.
“Kurt admitted on the earliest alternative that what he did was flawed. He has apologised with out reservation.
“We hope that now the court docket has reached its choice, each one will enable Kurt the possibility to study from his mistake and transfer on.”
Zouma was fined two weeks’ wage by the membership when the incident occurred and was dropped by David Moyes from the beginning group when the warmth turned an excessive amount of.
