An Australian woman has been charged after she allegedly threw a dog in a kennel off a cliff in Wollongong in 2023.
A witness told police he heard a dog yelping as he walked through Clive Bissell Drive at Mount Keira at about 8:30am on Sunday, January 22 last year.
He said that's when he found a kennel upside down, at the bottom of a steep slope. Inside was an injured Australian bulldog.
NSW police said the dog appeared emaciated and in poor health.
They allege the kennel, with the dog inside, had been thrown off the edge of a cliff the night before it was found.
Police and search and rescue teams managed to retrieve the dog, but a vet later euthanised it due to its injuries and poor health.
Following a year-long investigation, detectives arrested a woman on Friday morning at a property in Horsley - 20km away from where the dog was discovered.
New South Wales police have since charged her with animal torture, beating, and causing an animal's death.
She was granted bail and will appear at the Wollongong Local Court next month.
