Maximum Punishment and Lifelong Ban on Animals for Arthur Kent

A jobless thug has been exposed as the man filmed viciously kicking a puppy in a public park.

Arthur Kent, 24, was yesterday interviewed by police and the RSPCA after the appalling video appeared on the internet.

The dog was seen being kicked, dragged up a hill and hoisted up by its neck.

At one stage, it was kicked so hard it was lifted off the ground at Knee Hill Park, Abbey Wood, in South East London. Footage of the incident caused a public outcry.

But Kent, one of five children brought up by single mum Angela Jones on an estate in Bexleyheath, South London, was dismissive of the incident.

When friend Craig Connan called him, he answered: “Battersea Dogs Home.”

Kent, of nearby Welling, is understood to have handed himself in to police after the story was published in the Daily Mirror.

He was released without charge before RSPCA officials took over the case.

The puppy has since been seized from an address in Welling by police officers.