By Elena Chong, Courts Correspondent

A MAN who hurled his sister's pet dog 22 floors down a block of flats was jailed yesterday for ill-treatment of an animal and other offences.

Odd-job worker Sim Wee Meng, 33, pleaded guilty to throwing the three-year- old Maltese out of his sister's flat in Sengkang on Jan 21 last year.

He also admitted to two charges of taking drugs and possessing offensive weapons.

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