REVENGE ATTACK
Count kills ex-wife’s dog during bitter divorce
An Austrian aristocrat has been slapped with a £2 000 fine for shooting his ex-wife’s dog with a shotgun.
Countess Susan Goess-Saurau recently told Swindon magistrates’ court that her estranged husband, Count Konrad GoessSaurau, killed Herman, her German pointer and hid his body at their Wiltshire manor in an act of revenge. The couple are in the middle of a messy divorce.
She claims her ex told her, “I have put the dog down, he’s disgusting, nobody likes him.”
Although the count admitted to shooting Herman, he claimed it was a mercy killing because the 13-yearold hound had cancer and was in agony.
“I fully admit that I shot Herman, my gun dog. I had to take the merciful route to end his suffering. I shot him humanely and buried him with my gamekeeper,” he said in a handwritten prepared statement.
Konrad is a millionaire horse-racing enthusiast and conservationist who founded the now-defunct Marlboro Cup for thoroughbred horse races.