23/10/2026
A warped cat killer who made threats to r**e, set on fire and kill a 4 year-old girl has been released from prison
Jack Morris has been released from prison after being jailed in November 2024, for a chilling campaign of threats against his former partner’s four-year-old daughter — a child he resented for - in his words - taking her mother’s attention away from him.
Morris was sentenced to 41 months after admitting making threats to kill and causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.
Norwich Crown Court heard that Morris threatened to r**e and murder the little girl, beat her to death and set her on fire. He told her mother he wanted the child dead so they could be happy together and have children of their own.
The mother secretly recorded his threats on her phone.
In those recordings, Morris said he fantasised about killing the girl and wanted her to die painfully. He dismissed her existence because she was not his biological child.
He also admitted that he had hurt the girl when her mother was out of the room, including pulling her hair, pushing her into things and hitting her.
His vile cruelty extended to the family cat.
Morris repeatedly kicked the cat, which was later found dead in a play tunnel behind the sofa at the family’s Drayton home, with blood in its mouth.
He subsequently told his former partner he had enjoyed killing the cat, saying; “I literally beat it to death .. she was screaming .. and the more she screamed the more I wanted to hurt her”
Sentencing Morris, Judge Alice Robinson described his threats as “extreme” and “sadistic”, saying they had left the mother absolutely terrified.
The judge called him a “self-centred, compulsive liar and fantasist” whose calculated threats were intended to cause maximum distress.
In her victim impact statement, the mother said Morris had ruined her life and left her daughter terrified.
She pleaded with the court: “Please ensure my daughter’s safety.”
Morris received a total prison sentence of 41 months.
After 21 months in prison, he has now been released.
Morris’s release raises serious safeguarding concerns because his offending combined calculated threats against a four-year-old child, admissions of physical abuse and fatal violence towards a family pet.
His jealousy centred on the attention a mother gave her daughter. He spoke about killing the child as a way of removing her from their relationship, while admitting he hurt her when her mother was out of the room. That combination makes his access to children and intimate partners a particular concern.
His killing of the cat adds another disturbing dimension. He inflicted fatal violence on a vulnerable animal and then described enjoying its suffering. Alongside his threats against the girl, this demonstrates the seriousness of the behaviour for which he was imprisoned.
The danger demonstrated by his past conduct was concrete: a child subjected to threats and admitted assaults, a mother deliberately terrorised, and a pet beaten to death.
