article_snippet: Neil Tregarthen devoted six weeks to gathering information for a 15-page report that named their prime suspect – but officers dismissed a 15-page report that named their prime suspect – as ‘rumour and speculation’ and abandoned the case.
article_snippet: Yesterday the millionaire former business owner – who posed as an angler at one stage to spy on youths Neil Tregarthen believed were responsible – criticised the police investigation as ‘totally impotent’.
article_snippet: then Devon and Cornwall Police would not even go and knock on a couple of doors.
article_snippet: Mr Tregarthen said: ‘I feel like there is no justification for not investigating something that is illegal.
article_snippet: Devon and Cornwall Police neighbourhood beat
article_snippet: As for the investigation report, I have examined this and this is packed with rumour and speculation, not evidence.
article_snippet: However, on the back of this, officers did make further inquiries in the area which also turned out to be fruitless.
article_snippet: Mr Tregarthen said police were 'impotent' in police investigations into who killed the cat, pictured above in a red collar .
highlights_snippet: Claimed local police in Exeter had been 'impotent' in Claimed local police in Exeter inquiries .
  
highlights_snippet: The father of three put together a report which named a potential suspect .
  