article_snippet.sent: But instead of tracking down Harry and explaining what had happened, the officers involved knocked on a neighbour’s door and asked for a black bin bag.
article_snippet.sent: A witness then described seeing the officers involved ‘scooping Harry up and placing Harry in a black bin bag in the boot of the car’.
article_snippet.sent: Incredibly, when Tony Hunt contacted police, officers coldly told Tony Hunt Harry had been ‘disposed of’.
article_snippet.sent: Tony Hunt, 42, said Harry had told five-year-old daughter Lily that five-year-old daughter Lily beloved pet had gone to heaven, but could not bring Harry to tell five-year-old daughter Lily why.
article_snippet.sent: Harry accused police of a ‘lack of humanity’ and demanded a face-to-face apology from the two officers involved – one of whom was a WPC.
article_snippet.sent: I couldn’t believe what I was hearing when a young lad called to tell me a young lad had seen the police run over Harry.
article_snippet.sent: I called 101 straight away and eventually spoke to a desk sergeant, who confirmed Harry had been hit and said a young lad’d been “disposed of”.
article_snippet.sent: a young lad didn’t go into details as to how Harry had been “disposed of” and I didn’t want to know, to be honest.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Tony Hunt said Harry was microchipped and Harry body could have been returned to the family for cremation if Derbyshire Police had taken Harry to a vet or the RSPCA to be scanned.