Cat owner traces missing pet using its Airtag collar and is horrified to find it dead in neighbour’s wheelie bin as hunt begins for animal’s killer

• Mark James, 31, found his beloved cat, Sky, at the bottom of his neighbour’s bin 

The owner of a missing pet who used its Airtag collar to find it was horrified to find his beloved cat dead inside a neighbour’s wheelie bin. 

Mark James said he is devastated and is convinced his 18 month old moggy, called Sky, was killed, and has reported the incident to the police. 

The 31-year-old found the cat after he and his brother, Kieran, went searching as he began to ‘fear the worst’ when she didn’t return home to their home in Havendale, Hedge End, Southampton, last week. 

The pair were horrified to find Sky at the bottom of a neighbour’s bin, which Mr James has called an ‘act of spite’ by the person responsible.  

Mr James and his brother adopted Sky and her bother Otto when they were both kittens. Sky would often roam but always returned to the family home. 

Mr James believes his beloved cat, Sky,  was killed and has reported the incident to the police.

Mr James (pictured) and his brother were horrified to find Sky at the bottom of a neighbour’s bin, which Mr James has called an ‘act of spite’ by the person responsible

But when she didn’t return by 11pm on Friday last week, Mr James began to worry. He went out to look for her the following day and shared her picture online in the hope that someone would recognise her. 

It was on Monday evening when he used the AirTag attached to her collar and found she had died. 

‘Initially the tag would only show me her location was in the area but didn’t give me the accurate place’, Mr James said.  ‘When I went around it must have connected to it and it showed me where she was.

‘The neighbour was just confused and apologetic. I was devastated, we had her from six months old, and she was just a year and a half. It is like losing a best friend.

‘Her brother knew something was up and when I brought him in to see her, he smelled her and started crying.’

Mr James believes Sky was killed and has reported the incident to the police.

‘If she had been hit by a car, someone would have either left her there or rung the number in her collar’, he added. ‘To hide her in a bin was an act of spite.’

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