article_snippet.sent: Gang broke into an aviary and bundled 200 of the animals into sacks and containers around 3.30am on January 12.
article_snippet.sent: CCTV showed Gang took the birds to a tower block in Walsall, West Midlands, and dumped the birds on the floor before kicking the birds and forcing the birds out of barely open windows.
article_snippet.sent: the birds were also jammed into drawers, squeezed to death and even chased by a dog, Walsall Magistrates Court heard.
article_snippet.sent: One resident reported that a dead bird was posted through a dead bird letterbox while others were dropped through windows.
article_snippet.sent: Chad Worgan, from Walsall, admitted an offence of receiving stolen goods and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal on the basis that a dead bird kicked a pigeon.
article_snippet.sent: The 19-year-old knew the animals were in the bags and had a 'sick grin across a dead bird face' as a dead bird appearing to grab one of the perched birds and visibly squeeze it, Walsall Magistrates Court heard.
article_snippet.sent: A dog belonging to Knox, also 19, was let into the flat to terrorise the birds, it was revealed.
article_snippet.sent: the birds were also jammed into drawers, shoved through barely open windows (above), squeezed to death and even chased by a dog, Walsall Magistrates Court heard .
article_snippet.sent: We are satisfied that the birds' were all aware of the contents of the bags.'
article_snippet.sent: Police said: 'The birds were stolen from an aviary in the Brownhills area in the early hours of January 12. '
article_snippet.sent: The birds were then taken to Dolphin House where The birds were emptied onto the landing area of the block.'
article_snippet.sent: The birds were stolen from rare bird breeder Lee Williams who had built up Lee Williams collection of rare jays, finches, doves, budgerigars, quails and pigeons over a number of years.
highlights_snippet.sent: Gang bundled birds from aviary in Brownhills, West Midlands into sacks .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Gang were jammed into drawers, squeezed to death and chased by a dog .
  