Mentally Ill Family Who Became Convinced Their Bedlington Terrier Was Possessed By Evil Spirits Are Jailed

A horrific tale of animal cruelty and human stupidity has led to three mentally ill family members spending a number of years behind bars.

The family, mother Margaret Carroll, her partner Paul Carroll and her daughter, Katrina Livingstone seem to have engaged in a Ouija Board session that somehow led them to believe that their dog, Molly, a Bedlington Terrier was possessed by Evil Spirits.

Margaret Carroll, who according to a report in ibtimes.co.uk was a self proclaimed 'Black Witch' received messages from a Ouija Board concerning her own death.  It is unclear from reports exactly what the course of events were after the session and it is a high probability that we will never know, however the communications that Carroll imagined she had received led her husband to murder their dog, before trying to bury it beside a pub and then eventually dismembering it and flushing it down a drain which subsequently got blocked, leading investigators to the somewhat uneducated perpetrators.

After her husband was jailed for his offence and banned from keeping dogs for ten years, Carroll and her daughter resorted to the Ouija Board once again (of course, since it had been so successful the first time) which resulted in them both taking a cocktail of pills and setting fire to their house.

It sounds as though the plan was for them to then renter the house and burn to death.....however they decided against it.

They are now all in prison.