Police identify London’s cat killer

– There might not be a maniacal cat killer on the loose in London after all, or at least not a human one.

The mutilated remains of hundreds of domestic cats and kittens – along with some foxes and rabbits – have been turning up in the south of London since 2015.

The hunt for the killer was picked up by animal welfare groups and eventually Scotland Yard, which on Thursday reported the findings of a three-year investigation.

A pet shelter called Snarl even published the suspects’ profile: a white man in his 40s who was 1.8 metres tall.

But London police said the culprits were “not carried out by a human and are likely to be the result of predation or scavenging by wildlife.” –