A loving cat owner was left distraught after searching for his missing pet only to find it dead in his neighbour’s bin.

Mark James was left devastated when his beloved cat Sky went missing from his home in Southampton last week. 

Three days later, he and his brother began to “fear the worst” and decided to track her using the Apple Airtag attached to her collar. But she hadn’t gone far.

Mark, 31, found his 18-month-old pet’s dead body at the bottom of his neighbours wheelie bin, which he has said was an “act of spite”.

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He is convinced that Sky was killed and has reported the incident to the police.

He and his brother adopted Sky and her brother Otto as kittens, and while she liked to roam, Sky would always come home.

“Initially the tag would only show me her location was in the area but didn’t give me the accurate place”, Mr James said.

“When I went around it must have connected to it and it showed me where she was.

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“The neighbour was just confused and apologetic. I was devastated, we had her from six months old, and she was just a year and a half. It is like losing a best friend.

“Her brother knew something was up and when I brought him in to see her, he smelled her and started crying.

“If she had been hit by a car, someone would have either left her there or rung the number in her collar.

“To hide her in a bin was an act of spite.”

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