I read earlier, that he will only serve about half that sentence time. I have three cats, so I would chop his hands off !
My mother cat here,had four kittens 11 years ago, I kept two male kittens, ginger and white and looked like twins,, my daughter in Southampton had a darker coloured kitten, and a woman in the next village took the biggest kitten, who was a big fluffy all ginger one.
I saw the woman a couple of years later. asked her how the big fluffy cat was going on, and she said unbeknown to her at the time, she had a cat hating oldish man as a neighbour, and he poisoned her cat in his garden. She found some evidence of this.